Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - September 3, 1937, Lubbock, Texas HALFPRICE SALE on ALL SUMMER GOODS CLOTHIERS 1003 Starts the Day on the No 219 18 Pages Today Lubbock Friday 3 1937 AP Flier Is Killed On Eve Of National Air Races Lee Miles Dies Finger Pointed At As Wing Drops Off His Ship Accident Occurs As Flier Tested Speedy Plane At Cleveland To Open Races There Today I By The Associated Press I Sept Miles Fort Worth speed flier WM killed late today on of the opening of the National Air races when he tore off a wing and crashed his special racer on a test flight at Cleveland airport His ship crashed from an altitude of 200 feet Miles body was pulled from the wreckage of his ship about a half hour after the crash His plane did not burn airport officials said They believed the flier had the foresight to pull the switches when he found he was in trouble Was Rounding Pylon Miles a figure in the American air racing game for many was rounding a pylon at the north end of the field low altitude in his speedy little ship when spectators said one wing was sheared off by the tremendous of the wind and the machine plummeted into a grove of trees adjoining the airport It appeared Miles had completed the turn and was straightening out his ship from the steep bank he had assumed to round the pylon for a straightway dash when the wing came off No Chance To Use Chute Witnesses said obviously he had no chance to use his parachute because of his altitude Miles was entered in the Greve trophy race over a closed course on Sunday He was en tered In the Thompson trophy race scheduled for Monday the day after the Greve race and was flying a lew wing speedster several years old powered with a Manasco motor Pilots Toe Mark Ready For Bendix Trophy Dash CLEVELAND Sept 2 IP A dozen pilots mounted on the fastest airplanes in the country the armed services excepted toed the mark tonight in a race which was a quest for gold and speed in of international air su Turn to Page 13 Column 5 Please CMA Is Getting New Members Almost as many new members as old members have been enrolled this week in the South Plains Civic Music association The new mem is well toward the three hundred mark the Rev W R Viv president said late Thursday afternoon The second annual membership drive will end Sat afternoon Rev Mr Vivrett said the drive is progressing in a satisfactory man ner with all workers cooperating to the utmost Father Gabriel Diamante of St Elizabeths Catholic church will represent the association in a talk on The Spiritual Advantage of Music to be broadcast over radio station KFYO from until p m today An important checkup meeting is scheduled for p m in the drive headquarters at the Hilton hotel All workers are urgently re quested to be present and turn in sii memberships sold president announced to date the Curtis B Dal Denies Reports He Is To Wed Ft Worth Girl DALLAS Sept 2 B Dall of Dallas former soninlaw of President Roosevelt tonight would not confirm or deny rumors of a possible marriage to a Fort Worth girl and scored a columnists recent remarks as exceedingly bad Dall who arrived here today to attend to his oil interests declared he could not understand how fhe story started I have been on vacation in the Wisconsin woods with my two small children for three he said Spying he first heard of the rumor in Chicago Italy In Attacks On British Ships By The Press LONDON Sept naval reinforcements sped into the western Mediterranean tonight with guns ready to thunder Great Britains answer to mysterious submarine and airplane attacks on British ships The cabinet decision for more warships in the trouble zone off the coast of Spain was made with the full con currence of France Both nations also were agreed on Frances suggestion to bring the issue League of Nations council at Geneva late next week Public opinion in both nations inflamed by newspaper reports and official intimations that Italy is responsible for the increasingly frequent raids on neutral merchantmen and war ships was believed to be nearing the limit of its patience Cochran Farmer Is Charged In Rape Of Girl Special To The MORTON Sept with rape of a Morton girl B L Dooley Cochran county farmer was held in jail here tonight after having been returned from Williamson county by Sheriff Tom Standefer The girl small forher age and the daughter of a tenant fanner made a statement to District At torney Burton S Burks of Lubbock and his assistant Victor H Filed By County Attorney The complaint prepared by Coch ran County Attorney Lloyd B Kennedy and filed J P Tay lor Morton justice of peace resulted from information or Georgetown of who talked with the girl after she had been examined by a doctor and two nurses recently Burks said the case would be in by the next district court grand jury which will meet in the regular session of court to be convened by Judge Daniel A Blair Oct 25 Mother Dead Three Years The girls statement to Burks and Lindsey set out Dooley lives four miles southeast of Morton that he is married and has no children that she lives five miles northwest of Morton and formerly lived in the same community where Dooley resides that her mother had been dead three years and that she has four brothers and sisters ranging in aged from four to 16 years That she in the spring stayed a few days with the Dooley family she and her older brother chopping cotton three days in May and pre vious to that staying a few days at Turn to Page 13 Column 8 Please Nine Killed In Car Accidents By The Associated Press BALTIMORE Sept mother and father a son they were taking to college and a friend of the son were all killed today in a headon collision of their automobile and a bus a few miles from here The four dead were tentatively identified by State Police Sergeant E S Haddaway as Elmer D Hays of Chevy Chase his wife Mrs Elizabeth H Hays their son Elmer Hays 18 James Leech of Wash in Three Fatally injured In Collision In Illinois MATTOON Sept 2 fP Three men were fatally injured to day in the collision of two auto mobiles on highway 45 ten miles south of Mattoon The dead Charles Cheney Tulsa a geologist for oil companies driver of one automobile Joseph Gallagher Toledo driver of the second car Joe Light Toledo a passenger in Gallaghers automobile Muenster Man Is Victim Of Crash Near Whitesboro SHERMAN Sept 2 Joe of Muenster died in stantly today in a truck collision two miles east of Whitesboro He was about 40 years old Ben of Pilot Point and his brother Joe Townsen occupants of one of the trucks were un injured Marlin Man Dies From Injuries Of Crash MARLIN Sept 2 Dilliard 22 died in a here today from injuries in an autotruck collision Sunday mid j night v Capped By Attacks Molestation of shipping on Brit ains empire life and espe off the east coast of Spain was capped by mysterious rine attacks on the British destroy ed Havock and the British tanker The Havock dodged torpedoes from an unidentified submarine off SOVIET STEAMER SUNK 2 steamer wai reported sunk all Mini In the Aegean sea bja submarine which hoisted a Spanish Insurgent flat Reports here said one member of the was kilted by an explosion the at tacked the remainder land Thin account said the submarine fired two torpedoes the first a warn ing shot It asserted the second not only sank the but struck one or the ships boats the Spanish coast Monday night and loosed depth charges that may have submarine The on in near ly waters hours later was sunk Her second engineer was kill ed The rest of her crew of 32 brought ashore sis wounded seamen in open boats Cabinet Prime Minister Neville Cham berlain stung into action by the dangerous was under stood to have ordered a full cabinet meeting September 8 tive sources said Britains Mediter ranean war fleet was strengthened at Chamberlains insistence British cabinet ministers met twice today If Premier Mussolini of Italy re fuses to adopt a conciliatory atti tude authoritative sources predict ed Prance will feel compelled to consider lifting her ban on teers in the Spanish war Moment Most Inappropriate Britain also was expected to give H Duce to understand that the mo ment would be most inappropriate for friendship conversations unless the present tension is considerably relaxed Chamberlains summons of a holiday rare occur rence in Great inter as evidence of high Authoritative quarters said the meeting sized the government is determined Turn to Page 13 Column 4 Please Demands On Solons Cited By Nelson FORT WORTH Sept 2 The people of Texas must cease their demands for money of the state legislature if they want civic Senator G H Nel son of Lubbock formerly of Tahoka told an assembly of the Tarrant County Baptist association Its groups that put the pressure on you for ap at the the lawmaker continued I dread to go back You cant realize the pangs of suffering a legislator endures when the people want so much money all the Senator Nelson speaking on civic righteousness said the people were driving the government to the necessity of getting money from liquor taxation race track lottery and gambling taxation Leader of the fight which brought about re peal of the law legalizing race track betting he told his audience the state would have it back again if demands for money were not re Tom Connally To Confer On Loan Situation With Jones WASHINGTON Sept 2 Tom Connally of Texas said he would confer tomorrow with Jesse H Jones chairman of the Recon struction Finance corporation on the cotton loan situation originator of the cotton loan plan effected in 1935 said he was disappointed the administration chose to make rather than cotton loans He said his conference with Jones would be in regard to in the j application of the new loan j Typhoon Toll At Least 500 In Huge Ocean liners Are Hurled Aground And Flames Sweep Through Chinese Quarters By The Associates Press Sept 2 A 126 typhoon roared across Hongkong and the nearby teeming Chinese coastal communi ties today exacting a death toll which officials believed to be at least 500 and feared might run into the thousands Huge ocean liners were hurled aground and fires spread by the gales swept through congested Chi nese quarters of Hongkong trap ping many in their homes Heavy Loss On Boats There was heavy loss of life among thousands of Chinese who live on small boats when their floating homes were dashed against the Hongkong seawall or rocky coasts and smashed to bits v Distress calls from foundering ships raised fears the loss at sea would be heavy Destruction in Hongkong harbor was especially great because the port was jammed with shipping of all descriptions held here by the dangers of the war raging to the north Luxury Liners Abound Among the big ships snatched from their storm moorings and hurled aground were the Japanese transPacific liner Asama Maru tons and the Italian luxury liner Conte Verde tons ona of the finest ships plying between Europe and the Far East The Dutch passenger was a Total loss The Chinese were reported sunk as was the Hunan carrying Chinese refugees from Shan ghai At least 20 ships are believed to have gone down The great wind carried Turn to Page 13 Column 2 Please Pioneers Elect Mrs A Jones By EVA ROB Mrs Aubrey Jones who was May Bledsoe before her marriage was elected president of Lubbock County Pioneers association when approx 150 persons met Thursday afternoon at Plains fair grounds in fifth annual assembly Mrs Barrett Penney was named vice president and Mrs Lottie Boles Hilton was reelected secretary Aside from an interesting though informal program there was estab an arbitrary understanding of a moot problem when oldtimers said there was a definite time boun dary to determine whether one who had lived here many years was a pio neer Pioneers Arc Defined Those who came to Lubbock county prior to December 31 1900 qualify as pioneers members said they had determined Many of those who registered came to the county in the early 90s and one of the members is a year older than the state of Texas Mrs W T Boone and her daugh ter Miss Lalla Boone who came to Lubbock in 1895 when there were two stores in the town were at the Turn to Fage 13 Column 8 Please Louisiana Farmers Maypole System Is Novel Idea Cotton Row 80 Miles Long Bj DALE HARRISON Associated Frew Staff Writer LAKE PROVIDENCE Sept on George Hiders farm theres a row of cotton 80 miles long Of course it isnt straight If it was it would run from here to Vicksburg and 40 miles be yond It is a spiral starting at the center of a plot and spiralling out mile after mile Tile row of cotton isnt just idea of being different Behind it is some thing that Farmer Hiders neighbors think may revolu farming The idea is to cultivate the land almost entirely without the touch of the human hand Farmer Hider can arise with the dawn and walk back to his row of cotton He can start his tractor at one end of the row Then he can do what he wants the tractor will keep right on cultivating that row of cotton It makes no mistakes It comes just as close to the grow ing cotton plant as Mr Hider wishes A little after lunch the farm er goes out to his mechanical farmhand refuels it and away it goes down the row again Tills is one idea that goes around in circles and really gets somewhere The tractor has at to it a strong but airplane wire The other end is attached to what looks like a small oil derrick in the mid dle of the field It is about 12 feet high A large pipe about a foot in diameter extends from the top like a smoke stack The outer surface of the pipe is threaded so that it takes the thin wire like a winch takes a steel cable By starting the tractor at the outer end of the circle Farmer Hider has found that the pull of wire slowly winding about the pipe pulls the tractor steadily inward following the spiralled cotton row The tractor can also be started from the center and work outward pulling away as it receives slack from the un winding pipe Mi Hider calls his device the Maypole system and has taken out a patent on it School Tax Rate Here Increased To 95 Cents Rides Miles i The tax rate for 1937 for the Lub bock Independent School district was set at 95 cents an increase of 9 cents over last year at a meeting of the board of trustees Thursday night at the office of Dr J T Hutchinson president The rate had been 86 cents since 1932 school officials said The in crease in the tax rate this year was made necessary it was pointed out because of increases In salaries granted to teachers last spring The new salary now is about equal to the scale before the de pression brought on reductions the board at Thurs days meeting were Dr Hutchin son R F Bayless Dr Allen T Stewart W B Atkins and W G Firm National Depository The trustees approved bond of the First National bank of Lubbock as depository for the school district for the next two years W W Condray certified public accountant was appointed to audit the districts records for the ending Aug 31 John W Wilson was elected to the public school faculty to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Tol Terrell formerly a member of the junior high school faculty Terrells resignation was accepted Chicago Shows Bar Children By Associated Press CHICAGO Sept 2 Theaters barred children under 16 today in a new move to stem the spread of infantile paralysis Playgrounds and wading pools also were closed as the crippling disease attained the highest inci dence of the current outbreak in the nations second city Report 12 New Cases Dr Herman N Bundesen dent of the board of health an 12 new cases had been reported greatest number for one day since the onset of the malady Two babies died Representatives of 300 movie house operators voluntarily agreed to prohibit attendance of youngsters Shortly afterward Superintendent George T of the Chicago Park district ordered suspension of Turn to Page 13 Column 6 Please Newest Publication From Presses Is Biography Of Bedbug By EDDY Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Sept 2 This Is a book review of the governments newest pub biography of the bed bug Written by Maurice C Hall of the public health service It traces the domestic prowler from early nights on a Roman couch to the twin bed era of 1937 author inti been the only peo ple to get anything from the parasite besides annoyance Long ago it began to serve the United States as a source of jokes The Romans called it fhe cimex and the English the wall louse and the chinch but in the United States the bio graphy explains its common names are often facetious Here bedbugs won such names as chintzes mahogany flats red coats and crimson ramblers Its presence in the house the biography continues is not necessarily indicative of neglect or carelessness Then followed several pas sages that establish the author as a realist He says for in stance that the red ramblers of the bed chamber often are carried in by guests bedbug is normally nocturnal but under the im pulse of hunger it will attack persons in daylight and in well lighted rooms And still more realism The biting organ consists of the heavy fleshy There is just one criticism The most effective method for control of he says Is fumigation with Fumigate which Mr Hall the room or tht guests off on a jaunt from Chicago tn It lit home in Underbill was just exorcise for sturdy William C Bailey 84 shown above as he roller out of the city Bailey took up bicycle riding for his health when he wax 78 and has ridden miles the last five years It look him 18 days to pedal from Underbill to Chicago LawMaking Machine Grinds To A Stop Net 899 Laws WASHINGTON Sept 2 nations lawmaking machinery ground to a temporary slop today with an announcement by White House officials that President Roosevelt has completed action on all measures passed by the 75th congress Final score 937 bills 97 signed 7 vetoed 23 two passed over tile presidents veto Net result 899 new laws or amendments to old laws on thr sta tute books Most of the measures vetoed by the chief executive were minor in nature Among the most important were the two which congress enacted into law despite his objections One extended for one year the 3 12 per cent subsidy interest rate on federal land bank loans find specified a 4 per cent for the following year The other extended for five government term insurance policies held by World war veterans Gypsy Rose Lee Know What To Wear At Bullfight DALLAS Sept 2 Rose Lee strip tease dancer faced a problem today Visiting the ex with her husband Robert the former burlesque queen be guest of honor at a bullfight tomorrow Slip said her honeymoon trailer wardrobe was limited Hr what to Dental Society Of West Texas Meets Today Registration will start this morn ing at 8 oclock at the Hilton ho tel for members of the West Texas Dental society who will attend the annual convention of the organization Approximately 100 dentists are expected to regis ter Dr J G Hicks of Abilene will preside over the first meeting and Rev J Hodge rector of St Pauls Episcopal church will de liver the Invocation Ross Edwards Lubbock mayor and Dr J B Mc Corkle secretary of the Lubbock County Dental society will welcome visiting dentists Dr W C Kiel of El Paso will respond with a talk Turner PresidentElect Dr G C Turner dent ist is presidentelect of the asso which Includes all territory west of Fort Worth Principal speakers on the pro gram include L F MeGaw of San Antonio Dr A L Nygard of Dallas R H of New York and Dr of El Paso Saturdays program Will be de voted to table clinics and demon In a downtown dental of fice A golf tournament at Lubbock Country club gun shooting at Lub bock Gun club luncheon at the Hil ton hotel and a dinner and dance at the Lubbock hotel am slated for entertainment Carrie Tingley Hospital For Crippled Children Is Opened HOT SPRINGS N Sept 2 Governor and Mrs Clyde Tingley of New Mexico in attend ance the Carrie Tingley Hospital for Crippled Children opened Its doors today and launched master services which arc expected to bring life and health to unknown numbers of children in the Southwest All In Readiness For State Chess Tourney officials of the Texas Chess association Inst night an all was in readiness for the annual tournament here beginning tomorrow which will determine who is states champion After registration Saturday morn ing at the Hilton hotel contests will start at 1 oclock that afternoon on the mezzanine floor of the hotel according to T C Root of Lubbock secretary of the state association Dr R S Underwood also of Lub bock if president Approximately 30 participants are expected to compete for the title The contests will continue through Monday afternoon it was ed Officials here said they about four entries from El Paso six from Dallas three from San An tonio two from Fort Worth five or six from Lubbock and numbers of others Planes Said To Have Attacked Foes Island Reports Denied By Japanese But Chinese Electrified By Them Japs Receive Heavy Losses By MORRIS J HARRIS Associated Press Staff Writer SHANGHAI Sept 3 Friday Unconfirmed reports that Chi nese bombing planes had carried the war to Japan and bombarded Kag oshima on the southern island of Kyushu electrified Chinese circles here today No sources other than had the reports and foreign author were inclined to doubt them However it was recalled the Chi nese possess powerful bombers and have threatened re to send them across the Yellow sea to strike at the homeland Only 600 Away a city of at the southern tip of Kyushu is about 600 miles in direct line from Nan king probably the nearest Chinese Well authenticated reports stid the Chinese airforce had struck telling blows closer to home with punishing raids against the Jap anese far on the southern bank of the river Ten Chinese bombers from west of Soochow inflicted heavy losses and returned to their bases unscathed Bomb Japs Chinese planes also bombed the airbase the Japanese army established on Island In the Yangtze estuary The Chinese aerial activity reported seriously dislocating Jap anese plans to land huge tion along the Yangtze shore for i push Inland Japanese officers con to say the big offensive was about to begin but the aero hour was not revealed They 200 big guns were be ing landed to blast a way defenses Imperil p 8 Forces Lute Thursday Japanese bombers continued to operate close to the American marines and British in fantry defense lines In International settlement seriously imperilling the forces on guard there The Japanese command notified British authorities such raids would continue and advised withdrawal of outposts alone the British line which is a continuation of the American The main battle for Shanghai Turn to Page 13 Column 3 Russian Planes Land In Shensi Prosi TIENTSIN Sept Japanese consulate general reported today a fleet of 72 Russian airplanes had arrived at the north Central China province of Shensi 500 air miles from Tientsin Seventy additional Russian planes were flying to China Japanese said adding they did not know whether the planes were purchased from Russia or were a Soviet tion to a Chinese Soviet anti Japanese It was not possible to obtain an impartial authentic report on sup posed arrival of the Russian air fleet Japanese said they believed some form of Russian support for China was to be expected after the signing of the nonaggression pact ELECTION HELD DALLAS Sept 2 Max j Zantsky milliners union president said today that strikers here would go back to work if manufacturers agreed to an election to determine of unionists in the citys i hat shops FDR Departs On Fishing Trip In Eastern N Y Wafers POUGHKEEPSIE N Sept S Roosevelt embarked on the yacht Potomac here late today for a fishing trip in eastern New York waters The motored here from his mothers estate at Hyde Park anfl boarded the Potomac as uniformed the rails j of the vacation craft and the escort ship the new destroyer Selfridge j Mrs Roosevelt saw him off In the j presidents party were Harry L Hopkins Works Progress adminis trator Secretary James Roosevelt Capt Paul navs aide and Capt Ross T Mclntyre naval physician Wea WEST TEXAS Partly cloudy Friday and Saturday NEW MEXICO Partly cloudy U cloudy Friday and Saturday thundershowers and cooler north west portion Friday WEATHER As Reported Municipal Airport Barometer at midnight Slowly midnight 11 decrees Wind midnight H mph Oi mi5 unlimited li de de SEPTEMBER 13 T
