Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - May 20, 1937, Lubbock, Texas IN LUBBOCK CLOTHIERS 1003 Broadway FIFTEENTH YEAR NO 143 14 TEXAS THURSDAY MAY 21 HUNS ASSOCIATED llred Hints Several Sessions Likely 4 On Court Reform Measure Taken For Granted uch An Ending s Said To Be n The Making Coup Planned For Meeting Failed More Resignations Seen By The Associated May ers took it for granted tonight at there will be a haps the hotly disput Roosevelt court reorganization Speaking privately men Uith each side of the battle said it such an ending to the conflict i in the making even before the rement of Associate Justice Wll Devanter Surprise Coup fact it was revealed senate ministration leaders had prepar surprise coup on a compromise voting session of the judiciary committee one rever which did not quite come Washington excited living the momentous days that loves exchanged rumors that ore members of the high court may How Van Devanter into retire ent Two More To Retire iAt Chicago Senator Lewis D 3 was quite sure a st two more judges had Id to the president and others their to There was continued speculation r Justice Van succes In virtually quarters it was illy that high on the nominees to the he name of Senator of Arkansas ilic leader has deft New Deal legislation Compromise Man primary significance in the situation was an by Senator Logan i compromise which he ad I yesterday had the approval administration leadership It fon this proposal incidentally hp attempted coup turned presidents calls for au ly to appoint an additional er to the Supreme court for incumbent who has pawed 70 BRC a maximum addition of Van and five now opposition commanding a of the judiciary corn on the immediate increase of or six determined to vote bt every amendment and there a committed that the be defeated in jenate gol their s together and came to the if the could filled in advance of the commit might be ing away from the opposition to adverse committer report quite ition supporters on the commit voted for an amendment by to Page 4 Column 4 Please Edward And Watty All Signed Up For Their Marriage Before Noon June 3 Bv The Press rONTS France May MC Wallis War field is assured of becoming Her Highness the Duchess of before noon June the day of her man L Rogers spokesman for the Duke and his fiancee an Rogers indicated the British government had compromised with the former Kinp Edward VIII and his future bride a royal style that will make her eighth ranking wom an of the British empire ahead of all the peeresses ot the realm The Duke had insisted not only that his bride become H R but that members of the British royal family attend the wedding at the chateau do Cande On the latter point ap he the gov had conceded the for mer No members of his family will be present the simple marriage rites As the Duchess of Windsor Mrs Warfield will rank after only Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary princess Eliza beth the heiress presumptive and Princess Margaret Rose the Princess Royal Mary and the Duchesses of Gloucester and Kent Plans Secret Honeymoon Rogers disclosed that Ed ward with a marriage contract and almost all details of the wedding ceremony clear ed up is planning a secret honeymoon of three weeks somewhere where the eyes of the world will not be upon them Other sources snid the Duke seeking another chateau in northern France hidden enough so that he could entertain priv ately members of the royal fam ily and let them become ac with the new Royal Take Yacht Trip If he is unable to find such place it was said the Duke and his bride might go to the Rogers villa at Cannes and then embark on a yacht for an Adri cruise such as they en joyed together late last summer On that cruise Edward ered a lovely well hidden is land off the Dalmation coast After their secret honey Turn to Page 4 Column 3 Please Labors Future In Steel Vote Collective Bargaining Election Will Be Held Today By Jones laughlin Workers Tenseness Permeates Steel Sections Didnt Work Out Her proposed 139 timrs before she accepted him ant then their marriage didnt work out Frances Maddux above New Vork and society a as shr prepared to Paul Reese n government for Their interests diverted the linger Mid Born To Couple hree Are Alive May 19 were born today to a Vagoner county farm wife with nly her son as nt One of thr infante n girl born to Ir and Mrs William Mullins died after birth but the other ree two boys and n girl appeared he winnins Mirir for life in 1 incubator here Dr H K Riddle Coweta rian who arrived at the farm home shortly the multiple births said the infants were born month prematurely Dr W R Joblin physician from Uie nearby town of Porter brought e three surviving to a spital here They weir oxygen We arr doing all that ran be Idone for Doctor Joblin said but none of them weighs more of The mother who is 30 report ed doing well There a IT other Mullins Senate Extends Soil Payments WASHINGTON IP The passed and sent to ihr White a hill to 942 power of Hie of ac to make soil conservation laymens direct in producers Thr was approved with out a vote the senate nrl rejected nn Mi lority bonder McNary lo limit the extension to years Wagner Act Language Can Not Be Basis For AAA WASHINGTON May 10 The told fHm lenders today they not usf the of thr Su mp court derision the labor act as n basis for re viving the old TripleA Chairman Smith joined Senators Morris Pope D in hnl the courts invalidation of AAA stood in the way of sn Adjustment an of 1937 to control production and prices Thr proposed new art has been drafted and laid before the com by farm lenders sponsors that if the to regulate production of gar ments in interstate commerce it thr sump control over agricultural production Bv Ttr Associated PITTSBURGH May I or organized steel labor or dered their followers to the polls to morrow in a collective bargaining election which union members said would determine a course of peace or war affecting move sleef workers A tenseness mill sections of Pittsburgh and nearby in the wake Of Union Leader Philip Murrays charge thai police agents of the Republic Steel corporation were in to interfere in the elec tion of Jones i Laughlin Steel corporation On Twenty four state pointmen were on duty in Aliquippa on the eve of the biggest election ever held under supervision of the Na Lobor Relations board The results of the voting will de Ode whether Murrays steel Work ers Organizing Committee will rep resent all Jones fc Laughlin work ers as thp exclusive collective bsr Firms Deny Both Jones fc Laughlin and Re public Steel denied any at interference in the balloting which was agreed upon last week to end strike at the J L plants chief in the drive L Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization to en list the nations mill men in one big industrial union de clared seven Republic police and plant officials and 30 thugs of what he called the gas pipe gang were concentrated tt Aliquippa He charged they were there to break up the election by force and Trained On Hand Republic said a few train ed observers had been in the mill town in view of newspaper reports carrying threats of a strike against deny that any of those men vere present during any part of the strike at Jones i Turn to 4 Column 1 Texas Labor Is For Pardon Of Tom Mooney By Pros TYLER May to moral support to Tom Mooney in his fight for rindi in California was authorized oday by delegates at the state fed mion of labor convention John Green of Lubbock spoke in of the pledge If there is a here who iocs not believe in the innocence of Mooney T want to see what he Green Green Telegram William Green president of the American Federation of Labor tele graphed the convention from Wash that The loyalty and devo ion which those in attendance at convention are to the American Federation of Labor its aws principles and policies is deep y The convention Monday took the oath of allegiance to the A F of L after officials had announced C I O sympathisers would not be seated Wr will resist every attempt made by subversive forces to impose thr organized labor movement of America an imported philosophy designed to substitute dictatorship Hid autocracy in America for demo cratic the telegram from reen said Move Made To Sell New Mexico Mine Properties For Texas ALBUQUERQUE N May 10 Action to sell property nf the Mines New Mexico pvn for contributions the New Mexico Unemployment Compensation commission an here today Explaining thp was thr first of its kind in New Mexico Clinton P Anderson of thp corn mission said the sheriff of Catron county had been directed to sell thp firms property and collect dun contributions and penalties and interest Diplomatic Position Changes Announced Gigantic Flood Control Is Drafted System Of Nearly 100 Dams Would Be Constructed In River Areas Of Nation Press WASHINGTON May 19 An program to control and prevent floods was in the draft ing stage today in the house of rep The house flood control committee was seeking an agreement with President Roosevelt that would in sure legislation this session System Of Recommended The major feature of the pro posal informed persons indicated is the recommendation of Major General Edward M chief of army engineers that a system of nearly 100 flood prevention res be constructed on the Mississippi and its tributaries at s cost of not more than Flood control advocates in the house are to authorization of the program Thi total expenditure would be spreat over a number of years the annua spending beins to Postponement Representative Whittington D Miss i chairman of the house com said that although Roosevelt had submitted the flood control report to the committee h had requested it be held up unti January Representative replied that it would be sheeres waste to build control dam without power projects to bear the cost Whittington declined to mak public the the presidents letter pending a decision on the required legislation Other authorities indicated how ever that General Markham pro posed a system of reservoirs on the Ohio Mississippi Red Arkansas Missouri and White rivers and their tributaries and the building of flood walls and levies to protect approx 100 towns and cities Markhams report consists of a review of previous recommendations in the light of the disastrous floods which swept down the Ohio this spring It embraced a flood control plan for the rich Alluvial plain of Arkansas Gets Tourist Killer And Girl Alternately shrieking and treated with to cnr rect the by overexcitement from which he s suffering tester 23 who confessed to in Texas Arkansas and Illinois during a motor tour with his hometown tirl friend was examined in N Jail about a fourth mur der pictured ith Bernice Felton 18 his com jail matron Minnie Starr Gale and a State trooper Graduates Will Get Diplomas This Evening Commencement members of the ST LOUIS May 9 of Lonoke county Arkansas through here today enroute home from New York with Lester hurst 23 charged with the slaying of Victor Gates They were travel ing by train The Arkansas officers also had in custody Bernice Felton 18 ar rested with in New York and charged with being an ac to the slaying exercises for Lubbock High school senior class will be held at E oclock tonight in the Senior High auditorium according to an an by RW Matthews principal Twenty students of the class will receive special recognition for being honor students Students to be honored are Lu ene Anderson Shirley Bass Lillian Harlow Cram Dale Findley Her M Jack Holley Arlisa Wendell Killin Bob Lindsey Mary Ethel Moore Mavis Pendley Bertha Proctor Chalones Whitacre Roberts Ens fenn Roberts Billy Betty Jo John lye Mae Thompson Yvonne Walk r Angelene West and Hazel Ann Wilson S M U Man Dr C Q Smith vice president of Southern Methodist university vill deliver the graduation message o the J W Gamble a member of the boys debate team hut won third in the state league this year is the speaker His subject will be Life and Unfinished the Mississippi miles wide and Turn to 4 Column 8 Texas Congressman Proposes New Pay Plan For Officials WASHINGTON May 19 Representative Albert Thomas of Houston introduced today a to place all United States eom including 33 in Texas on a salary basis with a minimum pay of 5500 annually und a maximum of Thp measure was prompted he sairt by a conviction that the fee I system under which the officers are now paid is I WASHINGTON May IB President Roosevelt twr important state department person nel changes today sending to th the nominations of Sunnier Welles of Maryland to be of Moore of Virginia to be depart ment counselor Christ was chosen for the ann Moore now HIT swing convention as assistant secretaries of state HEADS HOUSTON May 19 T Mooty of San Antonio was elect eel president of the fraternal order state and R Walton of in at the close of i the state convention here today The president also nominated John Cudahy of Wisconsin min TO STORES HOUSTON May 19 Texas to thr Irish Free Stale Alvn members of the Catholic Mansfield Owsley of Texas as nun 0 America passed n resolution to to Denmark and Edwin boycott stores displaying ni of Ohio as minister to Siam advertising on John E Jenkins Texas Painter Dies At Eastland Wednesday EASTLAND May 19 Elit Jenkins 69 landscape and por trait painter died early today at the home of his daughter Hts principal works Include a por trait of Gen Sam Houston in Uir state capitol at Richmond a portrait of William Zuber in thf Texas at Austin and n por trait of Judge E S Gould in tin library of the University of Texas Jenkins a native of lived until recently at Houston was of the Texa Stair Art league vice president of the Kansas State Federation of Fin Arts and held an honorary mem in the Artists guild Chi cago in newspapers and Dust Bowl Meet Set For Today my The Press AMARILLO May from every county in the dust area comprising portions of Texas New Mexico Ok lahoma Colorado and rather here Thursday to further i plan providing for the coordination of efforts in soil and water conser vation The creation of a special erosion district embracing the area also wil be discussed The coordination of all government agencies now active in conservation work through a co ordinator or planning board ane special earmarked funds lor its administration will be considered Principal speaker at the will be Clarence recognised farm authority and editor of The Oklahoma Approximately 300 are expected Oklahoma City wil send a special delegation Data On Dust Control Is To Be Exchanged By Agencies OKLAHOMA CITY May 19 A group of federal and state of today and an agreement control Thp action WM taken with a Turn to Page 4 Column 1 Please The class which this evening complete its public school career is he only class that has spent a period of four years in the Senior High school building The stu dents include those who finished work at midterm those who are spring seniors and those who will complete their work in July According to groups they are divided as follows midterm 30 May 19 summer Principal Matthews Dr K E Turn to Page Column 4 Please Nazi Press Hits Back At Church Leader Talk Water Survey Fund Included In WASHINGTON May 19 Representative George Mahon of Colorado Tex said a Hem for underground witer surveys in is included in a provision of the interior department ap proved today by the house The sum to be matched by state funds Is more than allowed for the work under the current fis cal years program and than allowed in 1936 fiscal year The provision approved by the house calls for expenditure of 000 on water surveys in tho United States Mahon said Director W C of the geological survey assured him most of the al though set aside for Texas as a whole would be spent in the west ern part of the state FIVE OIK IN CRASH ANTIBES France May 19 Five parsons were killed today A new flying built for France America service caught lire and sank HIM as it was taking off for a test flight Thire were rescued unhurt Thr May newspapers tonight attacked George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago for having Der Fuehrer in way impossible to i The cardinal m a speech yester day attacked German Nazi tion to the Catholic church called prop Minister Paul Joseph G o e b e Is and referred to Adolf as an Austrian paper hang er i Vatican Is Questioned One newspaper asked the Vati can whether this outburst of one of its most eminent servants is to be passed over silently and with im Semiofficial comment carried by cial German news de clared further The German nation a whole is justified in demanding tion for these disgusting Vatican Says Cardinal Had Right To Speak Own Mind VATICAN CITY May 19 Vatican churchmen said tonight that George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago had every right to speak his mind in his address Tuesday in which lie referred to Adolf Hitler fo Round Out Program Cited First Special Session To Called For Monday Others May Follow In Summer The Associated Press May 19 Governor James V Alfred intimated broadly today several special ses sions might follow the general ses sion ending Saturday to round out a legislative program he considered far from completed In a statement to business men that he would defer the question of exempting private commercial car riers from regulations of contract trucks he said his experience had been thai unless he feeds the leg one subject at a time noth ing was accomplished Repeal Of First The chief executive reiterated hs could submit only repeal of certif wagering on horse races nov stalemated in the senate at a spe cial session to be called immediate ly upon adjournment The first objective of the spe ial session to ett a vote on a little nine will not be achieved if I nir more than one he as This matter involves a principle hat challenges the well being of the Fall To Raise Revenue He said the present session had failed to raise revenue to take up a deficit which on the basis of ap propriation might reach Matters that likely require at later ne outlined as ef highway safety legislation s soil conservation act to assure par of the federal govern ment con amendments public util ity regulation rid broader to prevent recurrences of similar to the gas explosion that killed hundreds of New London school pupils last March He told newspapermen he would have his proclamation ready when adjournment of tne cur rent session to call another Mon day on the sole topic of race wat ering repeal The members will get mileage to and ironi home he said since the adjourned period between this and the called session would exceed 24 hours The fate of the major appropria tion bills continued the chief con tern of the legislature today with Turn to Page Column 6 Please Dawson Old Timers Are To Gather For Reunion Today May 19 With an attendance of the annual Dawson county as an Austrian I reunion is to DP held They said the Vatican would not here Thursday Persons who lived in concern itself with the cardinal s lnt twenty or more years speech LRO arp to attend Cardinal Mundelein s speech will begin at Hitlers attitude toward the church and recent trials f German monks and lay brothers on immorality charges worse than World war atrocity Lindbergh Has No Wish To Celebrate 10th Anniversary Of Epochal Flight By TALBOT Tress SUff Writer May 13 Col J Charles A has no wish to commemorate to morrow the tenth anniversary of his epochal solo night from New York to Paris Now 33 and frown more sol emn and reticent than ever in the elapsed decade the Ameri can expatriate succinctly told a questioning friend I did it Why should 1 celebrate it He will spend day quietly at his country at Long turn with Mrs Lindbergh and boy Jon There will be no telephoned anniversary con gratulations the phone has disconnected One of his friends two days with the colonel recently and remarked on the approach ins anniversary of the never lias been duplicated How am I going to celebrate Lindbergh asked his friend 1 am riot If anybody else all right But I wont participate in any The colonels present and activities are known to very few I was with two the friend related But he vol nothing He and the family seem supremely happy Residents of their little village seldom see the famed couple although passersby occasionally Two lo Page i Column PIMM Texans To Pay More Than In Taxes During Present Year AUSTIN May 19 Texans may pay more than in state taxes based on collections for the first four months Sam of the tax aid if the rate for the quarter held up the tax would equal for earn man woman and child in state A impost in 1936 was a record but proceeds for ho four months were morn than for a like period Th tax is alloted onethird vail school fund and twothirds to old ape assistance p m with a barbecue picnic A featuring the old time songs follows the picnic and then old timers will thrill again to an square Other program numbers arp speeches by pioneer election of officers and a general visitation President Dixie Kilgore will preside over the meeting The annual affair year at visitors from in many county officials and pioneers of this section H H Barron and w V P Baker both of Lamesa arr secretary respectively of the Wea Arguments To Begin Today In Parker Slaying Case Trial BRADY May IB will begin tomorrow in Fre Par kers trial for the slaying of his wife last January The defense closed today on testi mony Parker wept the after Mrs Parker was killed Closing state testimony purported to prove Par ker showed no emotion the killing or at the funeral next day BAN SlN BATHING SLACKS SYRACUSE X May 19 Syracuse university authorities to day banned sun bathing by coeds atop sorority houses and aisn de clared slacks for wear ta boo WEST TEXAS thunder showers cooler in north and west portions Thursday Friday partly cloudy cooler in southeast portion NEW MEXICO Fair south un settled north portion Thursday and Friday little in tempera ture LOCAL BT Municipal Airport r v s lie MAY TGS 11 19 12 19 13 20 TEL 21 ft
