Morning Avalanche (Newspaper) - January 5, 1940, Lubbock, Texas JANUARY CLEARANCE NOW ON CLOTHIERS uung Usun 1003 BROADWAY Starts the Day on the South Plains LUBBOCK MORNING AVALANCHE Eighteenth No 48 18 Today Lubbock Friday 5 1940 AP Means Associated Press Is Sent To Congress ann Gets Life Sentence For Murder Of Cochran Officer trm Assessed ir Slaying Of Sheriff defendant Accepts Penalty almly No Notice Of Appeal Is Filed By His Counsel To The Avalanche ORTON Jan J W Mann to night accepted a life sentence conviction of murder of Deputy riff D T Smith ann 25 accepted the jurys ver calmly indicating he had been cerned over the states plea that receive the death penalty he jury reported at oclock T taking the case at oclock afternoon Deliberation was ed for dinner tonight and little re than two hours were required the verdict Antonio Han was jury foreman Sentence Passed lie courtroom in Cochran county was crowded with persons to learn outcome of the case ch opened Tuesday in t court of Judge Daniel A Blair was passed by Judge r after defense counsel gave no e of appeal inn was returned to Lubbock ity jail under heavy guard to t transfer to the state Throughout the trial he had n transported here from Lubbock h night he has been returned re for safekeeping Under Indictment urton S Burks district attorney assistant Victor H Lindsey and hran County Attorney Loyd R handled prosecution De Be attorneys were J E Vickers Ralph Brock both of Lubbock Bob Marshall of Morton said Mann recently had n indicted for robbery with fire is at San Angela and Sweet water was slated to go to trial in Tom en county Jan 17 Possibility of transfer there however was with the conviction here lann was released from the iary n August 1938 after satis sentences imposed for robbery and Nolan counties Protest Overruled lasted throughout this irnoon The jury had been corn ed Tuesday and testimony of 23 e and four defense witnesses was n Wednesday Tom Standefer who with luty Smith sought to arrest Mann Irn to Page 8 Column 4 Please O From Fatal By The Press WORTH Jan 4 Dr medical officer of a hospital here to ht Ernest Hurley 31 of fina died today after drink alcohol drained from an auto bile radiator and seven other in es were ill from the same cause authorities at first thought men were ill of food poisoning it was not until one man ught he was near death and con the alcohol had been drained an auto radiator that doctors able to administer an antidote Pr said had the doctors pn earlier the men had con ned wood alcohol Hurleys death have been prevented wo of the seven inmates are in condition Dr said lie medical director declined to cal the names of the seven justice of the peace returned an nest verdict of accidental death wood alcohol self administered Vr Hurleys death Reported To Have Made de Treaty With Bulgaria Jan 4 W Soviet was reported reliably tonight c reached a trade agreement Bulgaria one of thre powers which the Kremlin currently inducting economic negotiations quarters said the prin al features of the pact which V be signed tomorrow concern hipping accord in the Black sea Tiese quarters said emphatically no political questions were in ved DINNER Jan 4 W ODaniel a check to or a single meal The meal Is day dinner at Dallas In 1310 FYO If He Hadnt Had On So Many Clothes He Might Have Got Hurt By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA Jan 4 An ambulance rolled up to Taylor hospital today with a man who had been hurled across highway by an auto mobile Attendants pulled off a heavy overcoat two sweaters two shirts a a vest two pairs of trousers a suit of unusually heavy underwear a pair of work shoes rubbers and heavy socks to find Rex Bar roni 56 He had minor bruises Physicians said he might have been killed but for his Levelland Man Dies Apparently From Poison Special To The LEVELLAND Jan D Mar tin 26 of a mile and a half north of Levelland was dead tonight ap of poisoning and a suspect was held without charge The young farmer became serious ly ill this morning and was brought to a hospital here He died at oclock tonight Sheriff Ed Hofacket said a hear ing would be held Friday morning in county court of Judge James A Ellis to determine disposition of the suspect Viscera To Austin An autopsy held tonight did not determine definitely if Martin died of poisoning but a physician said symptoms leading to his death point ed to such a condition The viscera will be sent to Austin for further examination and verdict of an inquest will be withheld pend ing information from state health authorities said Sheriff Hofacket Martin had been visiting with rel atves here during the past week The body was taken to Davis Mason Funeral home Funeral ser vices had not been arranged at mid night Woman At Exclusive Resort Is Injured In Automobile Mishap FORT STOCKTON Jan 4 IF Miss Ruth Hardesty of Sea Is land exclusive resort was in jured seriously today when the au in which she and three companions were riding overturned near here Miss Hardesty suffered a frac ture of the skull Miss Ella Todd received a broken breast bone and Misses Mary and Martha Hickle all of Sea Island escaped injury The four young women were tour ing the West Irishwoman Sent To Jail For Beating Husband With Brush WHEELING W Jan 4 Judge Charles today sent Mrs Ethel Wolfson husky Irish woman to Jail for 30 days on her husbands plea that she beat him Displaying several bruises and bumps the slender husband said Mrs Wolfson used a hair brush Congratulations Bros market Mr and Mrs G W Gilson of 320 Avenue H on birth of daugh ter weighing 7 pounds at oc 1 o c k Thurs day morning at the r c s 1 d ence Gilson is em ployed at Boyd Rev and Mrs L R Hyatt of Lub bock route 2 on birth of a son weigh ing 512 pounds at midnight at Plains hospital Frank Murphy Appointed To Supreme Court Appointments Are Sent With Several Others To Senate Approval Is Predicted Br The Jan in out a New majority which may dominate the supreme court for years to come President Roosevelt nominated At torney General Frank Murphy to day to fill the vacancy created by the death of Associate Justice Pierce Butler last November 16 Although a few Republicans pro tested that Murphy was too New or that his handling o sitdown strike situation in Michi gan when he was governor fied him leaders of both major par ties predicted the Senate would quickly confirm the appointment Murphy received the news mod estly Unworthy Of Honor I appreciate the he said but I consider myself unworthy of it and I think a far better selection could have been Senator Burke chair man of a Senate judiciary appointed to consider the nomination predicted the full com would recommend unani that the Senate confirm the Murphy nomination and also the presidents appointment of Solicitor General Robert H Jackson to be the new attorney general and Judge Francis Biddle of the third circuit court of appeals to be solicitor gen eral Burke a vigorous critic of admin labor policies expressed the opinion that there would real opposition to Murphy Other Selections Other nominations which dent Roosevelt sent to the Senate today included Charles Edison son of the famous inventor to be secretary of the navy He had been given a recess ap pointment to the post Daniel W Bell former acting di rector of the budget to be under secretary of the treasury in place of John W Hanes business man who resigned Westerner Catholic John L Sullivan of Manchester N to be assistant secretary of the treasury J Wirl Texas attorney to be undersecretary of the interior Grover Bennett Hill another Texan to be assistant secretary of agriculture Harry Slattery of South Carolina former of the inter ior to be rural electrification ad ministrator Murphy like the late Justice But Tum to Page 8 Column 5 Please Cheyenne Woman Dies Here In Hospital Thursday Night Mrs Hulda Urban 31 of Cheyenne died shortly after midnight at Plains hospital after a brief illness She had been a medical patient at the hospital three days The body was taken to Sanders Funeral home and probably will be sent to Abilene for burial The husband is an oil driller at Cheyenne CENSORSHIP LIFTED MADRID Jan 4 Span ish government today lifted its cen of private correspondence within Spain Censorship remains in force however on international correspondence TRIAT SET Jan 4 trial of Roy Wallace Hill county com missioner on the first of 10 charges of embezzlement and tion of public funds was set for Jan 8 today DICKSON DIES WASHINGTON Jan 4 erick S Dickson 58 former head of j the world war trade board and once I a state department official died to day Romeo And Juliet Elope By Car Train And Plane N Br FRANK Press SUff Writer EW YORK Jan 4 Eileen and George Lowther 3rd with the happy announcement they would wed tomorrow in an undisclosed hamlet far far from New York The sweethearts met and fled after Miss away from her home Jn the swank east on the ruse she was to take her dog for a The elopement abruptly cli maxed a cafe society Jove enlivened by front extraordinary court action and public parental frowns of Mr and Mrs Walter R Herrick the so parents That the frown hart deepen ed was indicated by a New York police report that Herrick for mer park commissioner and head of a distinguished old New York family had complained to them that his being held against her El Johnson attor ney who twice helped the 30 Turn 1 Communications Of Red Forces Are Severed By F HAWKINS Associated Press Staff Writer WITH FINNISH FORCES ON THE LAKE FRONT Jan ski patrols pursuing flee ing Red army forces were reported reliably today to have penetrated deep into Russian territory and to have cut the vital Murmansk rail road at several places The railroad which curves through soviet territory at dis tances ranging from 50 to 150 miles from the border is Russias only supply line to her for ces in the far north Copenhagen advices said that Pekka Nieme champion Finnish ski runner led one of the elusive white clad patrols which dynamited one of the Other dispatches from the Danish capital said a spur line of the rail road had been blown Division Surrounded The daring forays against the rail line were said to have been accom by Finns engaged in a wide encircling movement against hapless survivors of the crushing defeat ad ministered to the soviet divi sion on the shores of Lake Kianta reports in Copen hagen said the Finns had surrounded a Russian division in central Finland between Lake Kianta and the border The division was en route to the aid of the Red armys division trapped and wiped out by the Finns in the greatest battle of the Road Is Severed The main Finnish force in central Finland meantime has strengthen ed and consolidated its positions within five miles of the border and is continuing operations against fleeing Russians of the rou ted division Reports received at Bergen Nor way said unidentified bombing planes bombed the Finnish Arctic port of for the second time to day The port has been in the hands of the Russians since early In the war The aircraft of A type not used hitherto by the Finns van ished over the sea leading to ru Tum to Page 9 Column 4 Please Negro Suspected Of Murder Is Hunted MEADVILLE Jan 4 W State militiamen were ordered here tonight as a posse of 100 armed men scoured a wood for a negro suspected of participating in a gun fight in which a white man was slain The negro was reported sighted three times by the possemen who fired volley after volley of shots at the fugitive wounded In the head in the gun fight that re in the death of Hillard Hall 21 Monday In response to telephone call from a deputy sheriff here Gover nor Hugh White ordered national guardsmen to the scene apparent ly violence should the be taken Two other negroes suspected of participating In the fight which re in the wounding of two other white men fled toward New Or leans Lorenzo Woman Dies At Home To Be Today Mrs Aubrey H Howard 31 Of Lorenzo died at oclock Thurs day morning at the residence after a brief Illness Funeral services will be conducted at 2 oclock this afternoon in the Baptist church with the pastor Rev Earl Lantroup ating home will dJ rwt burial in Lorenzo cemetery Mrs Howard had in Loren zo four years Surviving are the two sons Jodie Wayne and Charles Au brey trm parents Mr and Mrs Franca B Grant and NEW OLD CIVIC CLUB elected and outgoing of two Lubbock civic clubs are shown at initiations Thursday night Top photo front row left to ore J E Bob Gee Hugh Anderson George Dale and Wilson new and retiring officers of the American Business club Left to right in the lop row are Mrs Malsen Mrs Gee Miss Summy Lea Eaton nnd Mrs Dale Bob Crawford another officer could not attend Below are new nnd retiring presidents of the club pictured at the annual womens and Installation program They are left to right Charles H Read retiring president Mrs W L Stangel and Stangel newly named president Mrs Rend was to attend because of illness but three daughters had places of honor Stories on page 0 Lacy Becomes Board Member Bjr Thf Associated AUSTIN Jan Ed Old Hickory Supper To Be Held Here For Loyal Members Of Demo Party PLANS for an Old Hickory sup per Monday night were laid win Lacy of Longview a veteran Thursday afternoon by a group of in the public service today became j Democratic lenders at a meeting in the Hilton hotel Named chairman of a committee to publicize the supper was J Doyle Settle former state representative from this district were selected from each town of the surrounding territory A plain dinner for plain folk was the description given the event by leaders They pointed out it would be the only such banquet of the name in Texas deviating from the Old Hickory the dcs clven that In Dallas Too Far To Dallas Leaders also explained that the distance to Dallas made it tical for representative attendance a member of the nonsalaried public safety commission Shortly after he took the oath of office in Gov W Lee of fice the commission announced ap pointment of Chief Fred of the highway patrol to the assist ant directorship of the safety de Hickman succeeds S O Hamm who recently took a ranger assign ment in Southwest Texas Foreman Is Chief Highway Patrol Captain Hill Foreman of San Antonio was named patrol chief In succession to man and Sgt Glen Rose of the Houston district elevated to a captaincy Hickman a police officer for 17 years became a license and weight Inspector in 1927 Upon creation of the highway patrol in he was commander of the first training school for rookies He later served as commander of the Wichita Falls Houston and San Antonio districts chief enforcement officer of the drivers license division and in 1938 was appointed patrol chief Foreman has been with the patrol since 1930 He has been stationed variously In Corpus Christl Harlin gen Del Rio Weslaco and San An tonio The safety commission meeting for the first time this year took no action toward electing a new chair man Ordinarily the chairmanship rotates among the three members Current chairman Is W H Rich ardson of Austin who with George W Cottingham of Houston was appointed by Governor James V Allred Police Wonder If Connie Was Really Victim Of Robbers INDIANAPOLIS Jan 4 police tonight were trying to decide whether to record a reported theft of money and jewelry from Actress Constance Bennett or to forget the iwhole affair Detectives Louis and Al fred Schult said Miss Bennett ap In a touring play called them to her hotel room last night and reported her purse had disap said she listed the contents as and a gold case and vanity case valued at and ad ded that a gold cigarette lighter set with and valued at also was missing At Milwaukee today Miss Bennett denied the Ions and exclaimed I dont know where the story started but its all Nine Jurors Selected To Hear AGAINST PENSIONS AUSTIN Jan 4 ifTi American D yj Tri college students now would turn TOrl Ilia down pensions for themselves at BEAUMONT Jan 4 Ju by a margin of two to one a cur rent poll by students opinion sur veys at the University of Texas dis closed today CONVENTION PLANNED TEMPLE Jan 4 execu tive committee of the Texas Feder ation of Garden clubs made tenta rors had been selected when court adjourned today In the kidnaping trial of Dr William C of Port Arthur After the three additional Jurors are chosen tomorrow testimony will be put on by the state Riving details of the abduction of Irwln from the home of his parents Mr live plans today for the state coni and Mrs Fred Mingle In Port Ar here April 1112 December 8 Hot Dog Dinner At Austin Draws Protest f A DALLAS Jan 4 Marion S Church chairman of the Texas Jackson day dinner here the dollar a plate one riled today over that hot dog dinner set for Monday flight in Austin Sent an invitation which re ferred to the Dallas affair as one in a swanky hotel to be attended chiefly by who have made fortunes tn Church dispatched tele gram to Lavergne chairman of the Austin affair Send the mustard from your hot dogs to the telegram read that Vs about All the national Democratic com can expect from your Jackson day dinners which commemorate the anniversary or the battle of New Orleans party campaign funds over the nation jit ft Jackson day banquet there the same night Money derived from ticket sales will go directly to national Demo cratic headquarters and credit will be Riven South Plains Young Demo Calvin Hazlewood Is dent of West Texas Young Demo crats and n member of the steering committee appointed Thursday Set tle is a member of the Texas Jack son day committee L C Kills Lubbock county Demo cratic chairman presided at the meeting Tickets may be purchased at Mark Halsey drug store No 2 or from any member of the committee Donations arc being sought from a minimum of which will en attendance at the supper Members Named Other members of the committee ore Ellis Mayor Carl Slaton Sen G H Nelson H B Woods George Mark Halsey and C C Crenshaw all of Lubbock J Rails Dr C M Phillips J E Spcer Rudolph Struve thy Truntt Smith Tahoka Sam Richard Lamesa Crosbyton Judge Marshall Formby Dickens Jim Wilson Floydada Roy Terrell Lorenzo Ralph Sea graves Judge Major Schroter For rest Weimhold Sudan J M Ran kin Slaton Marshall Mason Post Truman Green Spur Harold La Font Plain view Joe Morton Vic Lamb Hale U L Matador A L Duff Sem inole and Jess Mitchell Muleshoe The supper will be held in the Hilton All Government Costs Except Defense Cut Republicans Wary Of Spending Program As Outlined Parly Conference Slated Today By L TURNER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Jan 4 dent Roosevelt presented Con gress with a budget contem plating the second smallest deficit of his two administrations added a brisk defense of his fiscal policies nnd challenged his critics to aban don glib generalities and show specifically where any further cuts in federal expenditures could They replied nt once with asser tions that the chief executive had made a gingerly approach toward a balanced budget at best and had done so only nt the cost of heavy concessions to political One of them Rep RSD said the figures looked tricky to him All Republicans In the Senate were called to n parly conference tomorrow to discuss the fiscal out look Probe At the same time Chairman Har rison of the Senate fin ance committee long an of decreased expenditures proposed that a 24 man congressional com be created to study the pres recommendations and pre pare recommendations of Its own also questioned the ad of Imposing new taxes yielding In one year as suggested by the president to defray increased defense costs It might be less discouraging to he said If we spread It out over 1040 and The fiscal outlook as delineated by the president In Ills budget and the message accompanying It prom ises n decrease In ex in the fiscal year which begins next July 1 compared with the year which closes on that date together with nn Increase of In receipts Alt But Defense The bulky budget listed a total contemplated expenditure of with cuts In almost every major Item except national defense Against this outgo tho president set estimated receipts of to be derived from the Turn to Page 9 Column 2 Please Woman Leaves SI To Family Members To Maid LOS ANGELES Jan 4 Margaret Fillmore leaves each to her sister Mary Miles Minter star of the silent screen and their Mrs Charlotte Shelby in her will for probate today All thin test of her estate valued at approximately and an Income of a month Is bequeathed to a former maid Miss Elsie Brosten Mrs Fillmore died last Dec 21 at the age of 39 The will was dated Jan 12 3939 Miss Brosten WM employed as her maid for eight months about seven years ago and later became her close friend TO HOSPITAL HILLSBORO Jan 4 eol lar bone and ribs broken when his automobile overturned today Don P Webster salesman lay on the highway for three hours be fore motorists brought him to a hospital here AID FOR FINNS NEW YORK Jan 4 President Herbert Hoover today transferred fo Finnish agencies the fourth collected by the Fin nish relief fund of which lie is na chairman Ranch Outlook For 1940 Bright By LEDGEnWOOD C SLOAN Associated Press Staff Writer Many Texas ranchmen foresee In 1940 the most prosperous year In a decade Markets were firm ta profitable 1939 ended Pastures revived from summer drouth by fall rains and Christmas snow were stocked com lightly Banks held lew livestock mortgages Mild fall wea ther kept animals In good condition and saved feed bills in many sec tions Trices Jump A war boom In September Jump ed wool and mohair prices to new peaks for years in the sheep and goat country around San Angelo Wool rose from a low of 15 cents a pound early in the year to a top of 45 cents paid for a graded clip The 1939 clip was esti mated at pounds Unsold were about pounds of fall wool and less than half a million pounds of the long or prem clip The wool market outlook WM bright American trade circles forecast a wool shortage in this country In the first quarter of 1940 Mohair almost doubled in during 1939 Recent prices of 55 Turn to Page 9 Column 1 Please Wea WEST TEXAS Cloudy Friday rain in south portion warmer in north and central por Friday NEW MEXICO Rain changing to snow in mountains Friday and in north portion Saturday Little change in temperature coM er northwest portion Saturday WEATHER Mi By Airport wind velocity tt midnight n mph if s fKt I Days i
