Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - December 24, 1937, Lubbock, Texas GIVE PRACTICAL GIFTS CLOTHIERS A MAN 1002 BROADWAY Starts the Day on LUBBOCK MORNING Sixteenth No 39 10 Today Lubbock Friday December 24 1937 AP Meani Associated Preis Farm Income In Area W W l V V Protest Made To Japs Over Reported Insult To U S Flair TTT m TTV i if 11 in i Investigation Of Incident Asked By Consul New Autonomous Commission Is Set Up By Japanese In Nanking Former Capital IS INCREASE Dec W A hundred men were added today to the cward at Mam island narr jard as Clarence tl an almost srt of ruin to Ihs Island and forbidding In approach hr rard permission Of at Ihr rard declined tn lift sudden decision to refutations which said four years old Dec 24 O United States Consul General Clarence E Gauss made strong representations to Japanese auth today over a reported insult to the American flag by Japanese soldiers at Wuhu 60 miles up the Yangtze from Nanking He also requested a complete in of the incident which allegedly occurred Dec 13 the day after Japanese bombs sank the JAP BOAT IS SEIZED LOS ANGELES Dec of a Japanese fishing boat the bjr federal officials t disclosed Slates Attorney Benjamin Harrison Hr said the was a part of program of h of all Japanese busts operated In waters The Hanks will be held pend Inr of an investigation M to her 11 S S gunboat Panay when Jap anese soldiers were completing their occupation of the important river port Flap Thrown Tn River According to reports received here Japanese soldiers seized n boat owned by the general hospital there pulled down the American flag and threw it in the river When members of the hospital staff rescued the flag and brought the matter in the attention of the Japanese at Wuhu he was reported to have expressed regrets There were reports that wide spread disorder prevailed when Japanese troops captured the city Japanese authorities at Shanghai today said new army units had been tn he to re place those troops who bore the Turn to Page 5 Column 8 Please Want Ta Be A Then Be On Hand With Your Car For Toys Distribution OULD you like to be a Good fellow in the final gesture of the drive to make underprivileged children happy this Christmas Two hundred cars will be needed at oclock Saturday morning to distribute gifts Gifts are housed in what formerly was the Collie Printing company building on Ave nue J between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets It will not be necessary for drivers to alight from their cars Scouts To Fill Cars They will line up on Avenue J Scouts will fill cars with pack ages with names and addresses at ready for delivery Not more than two hours will be required for each car and the last step in making Lubbocks Good fellows movements a success will be taken Annual Lions Club Party To Be Held This Morning Todays the DAY for the hun dreds of underprivileged boys and girls of Lubbock the place is the Palace Theatre startles at 10 oclock It is the annual Lions club Christmas party given by the local civic group to boys and girls who do not get as much out of life as some of the rest of the children of the town It is the ninth time that the club has staged a party and of course it will be like the circus bigger and better and grander than ever Crites Ready For Crowd Arlie Crites chairman of the clubs committee and in his spare time manager of the Palace and Lindsey theatres said last night he was ready for the crowd The candies nuts oranges have been sacked the gifts made ready and the next thing was the crowd A real picture show just the kind that kids like will be given Come dies short features are billed It will be one that the children not soon forget Santa Glaus has promised to show up and see that the gifts will be distributed somewhat in order He Turn to Page 5 Column 7 Please Aged Man Is Killed By Four Vicious Bulldogs Attack Made Near Wichita Falls Jones Cites Good Points Of The Pressi AM A RI LLO Dec 23 provision for enlarging foreign markets is perhaps the im portant section in the farm re cently passed by the house Rep Marvin Tones chairman of the I house committee said i today Congressman Jones is home for P Christmas visit with his mother Mrs H K Jones It is much better to pay a slight loss on shipment to countries which do not produce a commodity than to refrain from producing such commodity and thus lose the labor and commerce with its he commented Continues Soil Program It continues the soil conservation program All America is interested in this It provides a fund of out of tariff collections This fund is to be used in purchasing sur plus farm commodities for distribu tion at home and for paying losses m shipment abroad it should do much tn increase our world markets nnd commerce It provides for Joans to prevent price collapse and to prevent scar city It provides fnr of freight rate discriminations It provides marketing quotas to be effective only when there are surpluses the market will absorb both here and in for eign countries These are tn bp ef only when by two thirds of thp producers Lights Of Towns N Dec 23 W Deep in the dark bulk of the Ortiz the story of the Christ Child shone to night in resplendent electric display Christmas greeting the world from this tiny New mining town For a few weeks each holiday sen so n drab little Madrid a moment of glory It thrills proudly to the un visit of thousands of pilgrims who come to PCP scores of thousands of electric light bulbs depict the City of Bethlehem Shepherds and Manger scene Even the TWA airliners have been rerouted through tiie mountains this year so their passengers may look down on the lighted dramatisation of the Story of Bethlehem Madrid a mining camp town perched in the hills southwest of Santa Fe is jammed each night of the holiday season and the unpaved road leading to it is choked with automobiles The lighting display is a community idea born humbly 12 years ago nnd pro wine through passing years pood times and disaster It is the product of the entire village financed by funds of miners who contribute part of their pay check throughout the year Ford With Violation Of Labor Act Concern Is Declared To Show Unconcealed Hostility To Unionization To Appeal I By Thc Associated Press WASHINGTON Dec 23 The National Labor Relations board deciding today that the Ford Motor company violated the Wag ner Labor disputes act declared that the concern showed hostility to unionization This antagonism the board said was brought home to workers through the employment of hired MEN DETROIT 23 inn union trying In In near Cn fates went In police headquarters today wherr were n Arrests only when the hannil nf the United newspaper to thugs to terrorize and beat union members and through other acts of Reinstatements Ordered The board ordered the company to reinstate 29 employes who the decision said were discharged for union activity in violation of the Wagner act The company was di to stop discouraging mem in the United Automobile Workers or any other union Thr Ford company immediately challenged the decision A company statement issued at Detroit said it was based on and that an appeal would be taken to the United States circuit court of ap peals Brown was the animals Martin Makes Statement as he walked along the highway Homer Martin U A w A pres toward Wichita Falls from the home decision should of a son Clarence Lee Brown near Forci thp here He had sold his household tcn that the vast industrial belongings and was preparing to he so autocratically controls leave for Phoenix where his must adapt Itself to thc inevitable wife has lived for the past month development of modern with another son Raymond F namely emergence and Brown j of labor Three Dogs Killed I Thn decision resulted from E P Bomar of Henrietta I Plaints by the U A which is a Clay county and other officers A U A W complaint tilled three nf the hybrid tne Company had iBy The Associated Press WICHITA FALLS Dec 23 Four bulldogs killed L G Brown 71 today He wounded two of the dogs with a pocketknife Brown died in a hospital five hours after the attack in which flesh was torn from his legs and body and his arms and face were lacerated Oklahoma Man Killed Near Brownfield Son Is Injured minimi Drive You Might Not Be So Lucky HI nun B today and agreed allow T E Luecke the owner to take the fourth out of the county Pierre county said he was investigating the case Luecke who brought tn i hospital here said he had kept he animals to his chicken locks He usually kept chained he said but had released hem and gone is the house for a ew minutes when the animals at Brown Luecke beat the dogs away from the need man when lie cached the scene rn lo Page s Column 6 Please First Hop Of Airline Is On To South Seas HONOLULU Dec 23 American aviation began a new conquest of the Pacific today with a precision flight over the first leg of an airline linking the United Annual Dividend To Taxpayers Is Urged AMBLER Dec 23 fTi j Harvey Gravel stocky manufacturer who gave much of a Christmas bonus to thc of his employes today advocated a Plan for a annual dividend to each voter in the country Gravells as well as his Christmas bonuses are a part of his theory on wealth and the general economic system which he said he had outlined and pre sented to President Roosevelt provide that dividend To Gravoll would 1 Establish a national Joan asso 2 Permit it to exercise the Bus Service Will Be Changed Authorization to extend speed up nnd revise present routings and schedules of buses was given by the rity commission at its semi monthly at thP city hall Thursday afternoon to Ray Farmer manager of City Bus company who said thf changes would br nut into effect Jan 1 Thn featured a compara brief inert in of the commis sion at n considerable vol ume of routine war trans acted Now Parking Rules Adopted other actions taken were the adoption of new parking regu lations to Senior Hih school and Dupre school as safety measures of action on an ordinance which would that wrecking yard be fenced instructions to suit if collect delinquent taxes on personal property and fin all Hunt but gti mf out WM plaintiff plea that M they in body of the motorist from Hie of pictured abort E R of Houston who tried unsuccess fully near there to avoid the collision with the train by turning his car to thp left escaped with A cut over his eye Highway Patrol Chief Here Issues Warning On Driving F Special To Tlis Dec L Caraway 50 of Madill was killed instantly and a son Minor Caraway also of Madill suf a severe injury in an auto mobile mishap near Lahey about 5 miles south of Brownfield at 11 oclock this morning The accident happened on highway 51 Minor Caraway was rushed to hospital here for treatment and his left leg was FATALITIES ARE DRAMATIZED SEATTLE Dee 23 H and n Of Unl of Washington stu ra KOI to night in the first of a weekly series nf from county tn shoek motorists Thn office announced thn most hor rible fatality at earn week would originate In morgue and would Include the effects lo the selected amputated just below the knee His condition was considered serious The elder Caraway was struck by an automobile driven north on the highway by A H Scivally 42 of Amherst when Scivally was at tempting to pass the Caraway car on the right side of the road ac cording to a report by investigating officers Thc younger Caraway suf his injury when the machines sideswiped and caught his inu between them Damage to the automobiles was slight carried thc two the hospi tal here Investigators said the Caraway machine and old model car which had been made into a pickup had no gasoline and the occupants were pushing it north along thc highway Samuel Cara way two sons Minor and J and two other men were pushing A third son Leonard 27 was driving Attempted On Officers said Scivally was pre vented from passing the Caraway ar on tiie left because of n third machine going south He attempted n pass oil thc but a concrete Bountiful Crops Make Holidays Joyous Period Three Major Wheat Cotton And Sorghums Plus Livestock Create Surplus J SAM LEWIS Avalanche Staff Writer INCOME of farmers on the South Plains including 20 counties in Lubbocks territory for the tural year 1037 approximate a check of returns shows Three major crops wheat cotton and grain sorghums with the staple livestock industry and the poultry industry contribute to make this the greatest year in the history of this area Cotton harvesting is not yet completed nor have all of the cat tle and sheep been sold But enough is in sight it is believed to warrant the above estimate Average Placed At There are approximately farmers so that the average income would be Many farmers will receive far in excess of that amount while others will not get as much for gross income wiJl inevitably be figures are thc net amount considerably less Estimated income Wheat Cotton Grain Sorghums Corn l gnn nmi Livestock Miscellaneous K Caution Is Urged Of Texas Motorists On Highways During Christinas WeekEnd Dee 33 VT Thr Federated Clubs of appealed today for the utmost caution on the highways the Christ mas holiday weekend Leis make statisticians wrong for said Mrs E D Barlow chairman of the traffic safety committee of the federated clubs The statisticians say there will be inn persons killed dur ing thc entire holiday season The utmost caution ob servance of every rule of safety nnd common sense courtesy on thc will br Ur tn shake hands with friends when you return from the holidays I nan for them to visit a morgue commenting He doesnt look Is flir of Cap W W nf thr Texas patrol I rlayr nnd morp dark hours nn doubt will necessitate much driving during the Christmas season Capt said should distances i hours tn allow sufficient time between joints Added traffic during the holidays will driving hazardous lie said Death toll throughout thc state indicates n maximum of fat this year Care by all motor would minimize highway deaths Drunken cause many deathy each season he lives culvert prevented him from driving arthur off the road incident when he attempted to go between the culvert and the car pushed by the men The Am herst man was in a new model two door sedan The Caraway were en route to nut to Amherst Thc was ino yards south of said John Johnson Texas patrolman who Turn to Page 5 Column 3 Please many needless and in In endangering of intoxicated persons driving on the highways arc liable to prosecution Seas The Samoan Clipper big Pan American flying boat piloted by the veteran Captain Edwin C Musick landed at Kingman Reef miles south of here at p m p m central standard eight hours and nine after it left Honolulu this morning Through perfect the 13 states with and the South of eminent domain and take by purchase all stock in banks Abolish laws which enable private individual to collect inn nst through the courts and fnr the association the tn collect interest n approval of thn 1937 tax rolls prc by City Thp rnli Iht which is an In crease nf estimated valuations on UIP city budget this year was and Is n sain of as with final last Black Eye Will Not Prevent Will Pun If Boy Singing ln Choir Will KUll NEW YORK in a surplice and black eye Allred Not In Race si the department win be a it fnl candidate for in 4 Distribute the interest ed by thn association annually pro the voters of the country i Turn to Page 5 Column 5 Please Major of city dur isd by a third or Mrs Miriam A Ferguson former not run he said here TO WORK HOUSTON Dec 23 hundred Shell refinery bus sehe marched back to their will ini days of Idleness toda and union officials job after 40 as refinery reached an He nne of the most colorful shiners the club has ever seen nut thc harassed choirmaster de that Christmas eve without an I he launched Oldest Member Of Congress To Af Home On 100th Birthday ASHINGTON Dec r W her r evn to receive hi nn his birthday than score have call red brick house in of thc capital Till g ton crew j hour on the first ICE of mile route over which service will be formally Dec 29 The Clipper on a lagoon lied up for the night white the crew prepared to take off at dawn fnr Pago PaRO Samoa miles from Kinsman The following day calls fnr a flight from Samoa tn Auckland N terminus nf the American line Loans Are Made On Bales Of Cotton By Agency WASHINGTON Dv 23 The Credit corporation announced today thar loans dis bursed by the corporation and t by lendine as of today amounted to on j 807 bales of cotton than the appearance nf the black pyn specialist So George positively will appear IC Three Die Much Loss in Quake MEXICO heavy earthquake shook Mexico City and of southern Mexico today from line seconds to more man five min ites Three persons were known dead and minor da tuner tn buildings and streets was widespread Tiie epicenter of the shock the strongest in several years was be to be either In Oaxaca state miles south or in the Pacific ocean off Guerrero state Seismograph Broken of both seismographs In the national and central observa tories broken but the nation als director determined thn must have been of dangerous tensity at its center At least ten southern states thc shocks A survey of the capital showed thc nails of many buildings with Raping cracks sidewalks and strets with and a few water mains broken A number of outly ing adobe houses were shaken down Inhabitants of thp capital accept ed the temblor calmly for they have experienced frequent minor trem blings in the capital A few Indians praying in the street while the earth shook were the only evidence of alarm Greatest income is from cotton To Dec 1 ginnings were in ex cess of bales These sold at an SH or a of uhis is a conservative figure as many bales were sold lit around nnd the average Is plac ed at pound An ad number of bales at least possibly more will be sold The final estimate will depend upon price of hollies in January and Feb ruary nnd whether or not farmers want In pick Seed 519 Tone sold so fnr is estimated at tons averaging a ton or Additional seed will brins bales making the total Grain sorghums next It Is esti mated the area produced bushels or three fourths of thc gov estimated production of bushels At 40 cents per bushel income should approximate nils will include many hundreds of cars of grain sold as well as the bundles fed to live stock Sudan seed production for Is estimated at to brine a pound or more making to be added for a total of Corn is grown chiefly in Terry and Gaines Pro duction is estimated at bushels with Terry county making nearly three fourth of the crop Terry ranks High in Texas in com Turn to Pac 5 Column 4 sale in felt Vandenberg Will Not Run For President MIAMI BEACH Dec 23 ft Arthur H randenberg was quoted as saying to day he was not a candidate for president in 1940 and I do not in tend to be at any time in the fu The senator arrived from Wash ington today with Mrs Vandenberg sailed immediately on a fishine trip in the Florida keys If 1 I 7 Lubbock s Leaders Make Heavy Demand On Old Santa Dr Knapp Wishes For Oil Discovery On Tech Camh r SANTA The grownups for about too would like a word with yoi j And oh are serious some whimsical and others their humor ms some of But their wishes arc nothing new to you and at random without any effort of tn hp herp they arp handful of notables on the day before Christmas TR BRADFORD KVAPP a I hope wp in our pasture sometime in year Christmas Watermelons Sent North To Save Boys Life PORT ARTHUR Dec fresh City N in an j effort to savr the life of Donald l Worth are en route j Ralph Palmer radio Wea i nil E Firp DPST Santa brine few rr and more equipment irx new please grow rod U would like a new I also would like worn out I surely lens and Santa i PHP r and bears RKV f f First Baptist Church Hear Old Saint Nick I wish you amateur AMOS HOWARD S Postmaster for in Dear Saint Nick Give us an air bring fond shelter and cloth fd like a couple of an and a home economics building Thats only Santa Give us year of SUCCORS in serving W G Commissioner My wih is for happiness and mail bis 1938 through Lubbock and a rf Please bring me opportunity to work some leisure to read and write and a in to ail nur people in and make the rest of us to been jour helpers DR B F B S A The Boy Scouts would like to be for melons to be treatment of Worth as ser ill Palmer he appeal and a consignment of melons which had been fnr He had them for WEST TEXAS Considerable cloudiness Friday and Saturday much in north portion Fri day afternoon and night somewhat i colder in south portion Saturday i NEW MEXICO Unsettled Pri and Saturday probably light snow and somewhat colder north portion WEATHER BT Municipal Airport iy 5 degrees southwest 8 de MAV POSTPONE REPORT WASHINGTON Dec 23 Usually well informed Republicans I today was beins hv jome party leaders to pest pene until fnp report of the program recently formed chance to a by the Turn to Page 5 Column 1 Please the i mnh Davs 32 s je lv 7 6 9 II 13 14 IS
