San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - June 20, 1935, San Antonio, Texas Neal every ing on the magazine page of San Antonio Express will help start the day with a WORRIED MOTHERS Find Baby and articles in San Express a genuine Daily and Bulletins free for VOL. 171 SAN THURSDAY JUNE 20, 1935. PAGES PRICE 5. 1865 the several proposals upon which the citizens vote at a special election August 24, at least four will appeal to the ligent Texan as worthy of special Those are the ures bring about abolish the fee authorize Commissioners Courts commit the mentally sick to State hospitals temporarily without jury and authorize the Legislature to submit propositions at 9. special AS to abolishing tion for all public which THINK consistently has ad- for years growing civic sentiment favors that sary administrative Since the Beck Committee hearings some years ago brought to light the many abuses which were inherent in the system or had the citizens have realized that they are paying too heavily for maintaining an antiquated That is true notwithstanding the fact that the voters rejected a system abolition along with several other proposals last the pending ure is a it would hibit fees in counties of more than population and grant local option on the system in the lesser ADOPTING that amendment would save taxpayers an mated 1% million dollars a year in the it would do away with numerous abuses and make for efficiency in local It would mark one necessary step toward introducing business methods into State and local Those are ficient reasons for adopting the which is some years The proposal to waive jury trials in sending mental Roosevelt Joins Special Message Asks cise of Taxing Power to Carve Up Fortunes REVENUE MEASURE Amendment Authorize Taxing Municipal Bonds Only Producer Proposed Associated June 13. A program based on the theory that big for- tunes are created by collective rather than Individual effort was submitted to Congress today by President That the President had such an idea in mind took nobody by But that he should ask en- of such a broad plan when leaders already were ing effort to get Congress ready for adjournment by mid- July literally startled Re- publican leaders immediately said that to enact such a sive program now would prolong the session When the President suggested as a public policy of ing a wider distribution of was 1. Imposition of Inheritance and gift taxes on top of the present estate to be segregated for reduction of the national 2. Higher taxes on incomes above a 3. Graduated taxes on tion incomes ranging from 10% to per cent instead of the ent flat 13% per cent. 4. A constitutional amendment permitting the taxation of incomes from now tax-free county and city bonds on the other State and local taxation of future issues of government 5. The ot cor- structures by the Officials arc fng a of- the slaying of 19- year-old Hallmark ot whose broken body was found curly June 17 In a creek in a cemetery near tier girl's neck had neen broken apparently when hit by sharp BiJI Declares It Conforms to NBA But That's Up to Court FAILS Nation Treated to Spectacle Of Sworn Legislators Chancing Oath Breach Opposition Melts Despite Warnings Parts of Invalid MEMO 6 Amendment to Exempt vate Pension Plans Major Controversy By DAVID LAWRENCE I 1935. San Antonio I June being presented for passage In Congress today is more palpably unconstitutional than the amendments to the Adjustment Act and the original act which it is now sought to Notwithstanding the unanimous decision ol the Supreme Court of the United States in the Schechter which specifically says that there is nothing In the Federal Constitution which permits Con- gress to control agriculture committee of the House of Representatives has reported and the House has passed a which seeks to the very thing that the Court The is an intricately phrased measure but it is accompanied by a report which attempts to justify the constitutionality of the It Is that court decisions are cited for various minor changes in the inal but no citation is given for the main attempt to control agricultural The Says The new language of the on that reads as The secretary of agriculture subject to the provisions and from time time applicable to of and engaged in the j handling of any agricultural com- Experiment Taxes i or product thereof specified jury ran UHI of this to State hospitals through taxation of more than 90 treatment and also embodies a essary forward PROCEDURE jn dealing with the anti- in often in- Though it is really a false the family's dread of the notoriety attending such trials de- lays treatment for many an person who might be cured by applied in On the other temporary waiver of the jury trial would infringe no person's constitutional As to the other the ity sought for the Legislature to submit amendments at special sions is essential to dealing with the situation in recent years the amending process has been so nearly continuous that one sees no point to restricting such to a regular The necessity of removing that tion convincingly argues for a new State which would confine itself to fundamental law and leave the Legislature free to handle extraordinary situations as they expert body that sprang from the Interstate Commission on Con- began a systematic study of State and local fiscal It seeks to distribute and thus the taxpayer's The Council embraces eight eight State and eight city and county Texas is resented in the last-mentioned group by Judge Otis Miller of Henry Morgenthau Secretary of the is manent At the organization meeting in ton the Council created four com- to study the possibilities of allocating taxing so as to avoid REASONABLE ASSUMPTION is that double taxation generally is unfair numerous commodities and services pay not only but An example is which is taxed by State and Federal governments as well as by some cities and The great riety of on the motor vehicle industry affords another The income tax is duplicated in many A complete division of the taxing field is but an alternative be a general sales tax imposed by the Federal Government and shared the That is perhaps the painless form of but the ideal system is yet to be necessary holding companies in all lines of the similar discouragement of and corporate Some The fifth he could not time remaining this But because he had made the qualification on holding they interpreted the rest of his tax program as or at least legislation lor the present They Reactions ranging from high praise by most Democrats and some Republicans to assertions that his proposals would retard recovery day were evoked by Roosevelt's Senator Long who sought to put his program into the social curity have no faith in his if he'll come along and bust up every big for- tune in we'd be out of the depression in 24 Representative the lican think it was a fine stump It looks like the President is to get the Jump on Huey Long and the other The effect of the whole statement in my ment will be to retard the ment hoped for this Senator Republican would continue the sion It was that the President encountered vigorous opposition from some of his ad- visers who thought he should let the go over until next That was by one leader close to the who said plan hasn't a. chance in Hell of going through Congress this legislative ery was put to work on the Chairman Doughton North arranged to dis- cuss it tomorrow with members of the House Ways and Means Com- to which the plan was re- A showdown appeared likely In the Chairman Harrison said the Finance Committee would meet tomorrow to consider the to ex- Continued on Page 3, Column 1. Tried to Kill Chinese Student persons are referred to in this title as Such orders shall in the ner hereinafter in this section the handling of such agricultural or the current of inter- or foreign or so as directly or interstate foreign com- merce in- such commodity or product Penalties ranging Irum to a day are stipulated for violating Swallows More Now the Supreme in the Schechter clearly disposed of all the ingenious phrases of the brain trust lawyers about or interstate j But apparently Weather Man EXPECTS HER MORE San Antonio and Increasing ness with to moderate southerly Increasing cloudiness Friday partly 10 Light to moderate southerly winds on the Hourly SAN June 18-19, 1335. Associated June Lois attractive co-ed of Northeastern Oklahoma Teachers was convicted of to Daniel Chinese by a Jury in district court jury fixed the penalty at 30 The dark-eyed Indian girl listened to the verdict with the same stoicism she has shown throughout her but when members of her ered about her tears welled up in her eyes and she sobbed The jury reached its verdict in slightly more than seven hours of appearing in the courtroom to report just 15 utes after The large crowd which had been ing all day to heart the outcome of the strange case was caught off and few were in the The case was given to the jury at noon after closing arguments in which a amiable young was depicted as a by the defense and a by the charged with assault with intent to kill the was tured by her attorneys as girl crazed by ana by the State fenders of the insist that be- Associated June Here tlic taxes provided in the Roosevelt Social Security passed today by Uic Senate and what they are estimated to For old asc 1 per cent by employers employes on wages of up to a year In 103" 193S and 1939; Increasing one-half per cent each every three years un- til 1049 when it becomes 3 per cent Excluding farm domestics and casual the tax is expected to cover almost workers and by raise almost For unemployment 1 per cent by employers of four or more persons on their total payrolls next in- creasing to 2 per cent In 1937 and 3 per cent 1938. ing the some It is to cover ers and by 1938 raise 000 It Is estimated that by the National old age pension reserve fund will contain almost Associated administration's social security calling for the biggest tax program in the nation's Continued Flood Invades Little Rock Wharton Tide Curb Deep 1D-B Menard Bricklayer Goes To Russia to Convert Lands in Jail After ing Nine Months on Charge of Illegal Entry Into Defense Calls Witnesses to Prove Fair sible In. Orange Associated June Elmer 38-year-old bricklayer who walked into Russia to convert the ists to the way of was discovered today in detention camp near where has been for the last nine Word of his plight reached the American embassy few days ago and Secretary Angus T. Ward immediately went to the camp to aid the He found dressed in an old Russian army doing light work at the in lent spirits and praising the ment has received from the Ward said Baker gave him to understand he had made the long and tedious Journey from nard for the express purpose of preaching his ideals to the who was described as ex- said he left Continued on Page 3, Column 6. General overlord of the state of San Luis 1'otoai, maintains bis own army and air He is in President new Nueces At Falling At Up At Victoria Senators Badger Critic ot Associated June attorneys used witnesses House committee day to substantiate contentions in line and what the tural department lawyers have just told them was in one part of the committee the statement is made that the act has been changed to conform to the ter But no proof is adduced that such has The AAA amendments merely change the word to read and the word is for their motion for a change of venue that a fair trial in Orange County for Rev. Edgar sharpshooting would be accused of killing lice Chief Ed J. O'Reilly on a downtown street here three weeks one cigar after an- other and intently as his attorneys argued the Innuendo Specialists De- mand Proof Friend Is Associated June though here and there in the The strapping former pastor of are evidences that handlers and producers are about the It is that the de- In closing arguments for the de- one of her at- said Lois was by repeated made in a series of 14 extortion de- manding sums ranging up to and that admittedly to kill Shaw to save her own Owen attorney in his argument for whole affair was and ning i conspiracy from the and Lois knew her 84 83 10 82" 8 9p.m.... 8 78 11 12 1 5a.m.......... 6a.m.......... 7a.m.......... 80 10a.m.......... 82 84 86 11 12 1 87 90 90 90 90 2p.m 3p.a 5p.m..... 6 7 wrote those notes all the Before the were the final instructions of District Judge O. H. P. in which he threat does not justify ing in There must be Continued on Page 3, Column 4. PEORIA KILLING GIVEN TO SCIENCE Laboratories Seek Clues of Girl 111., June 13. The search for the slayer of pretty dred M. 19-year-old cause the Supreme Court declared milk affected with the public in- as defined by a New State this the Federal government the right to declare what farm commodities are with a public interest so far as Federal power is This would mean that Congress could declare any commodity with the public interest and thereafter it could be controlled as to production precisely as was attempted under the It is unthinkable that an decision of the Supreme the First Baptist wearing cowboy created a sensation when he entered the room and kicked a camera from a newspaper He went to his seat without a word after the J. Collins of chief of the defense expressed the opinion that the hearing on the venue change motion would last through State's neys had called many witnesses to oppose the Judge Pat Adams swore in proximately 100- a sad-eyed little snt in the jury box nearby and nervously fingered her attorneys said they frankly skeptical Senate committee today heard Ewing Y. de- posed assistant Secretary of Com- grimly and earnestly repeat his charges of in that department and de- its shipping board bureau as a of Committee members some some apparently amused flung back assertions tha the allegations were called re- for and pointedly asked Mitchell why he had not corrected the conditions of which he complained while still an cial of the Damage to Major Bridges Estimated At In some sought to attach to they Mitchell's Continued on Page 3. Column 3 Continued on Page 2. Democracy In General and U. S. Brand In Particular Scored By Bishop During Lords Delate On India Associated June A fiery attack on democracy in general and the American system In particular was launched the House of today by answer was that great chines controlled that democracy democratic and How are you going to keep a similar great machine irom con- the great masses of charges a motive of retaliation for his removal from office last week at the direction of President Roper Blocks Him Mitchell responded with tions that he had been blocked at every turn by Secretary Roper in his efforts at remedial and had tried unsuccessfully to have Shipping Board ly H. I. But so long as he was in he he had tried to work from the In- instead ot making bis charges Roper sat quietly by as Mitchell the Bishop of Exeter awaiting his own Mitchell was recalled for His testimony ied by some table pounding and arm waving that brought from the dealt largely with a contract whereby he said the United States a subsidiary of International cantile had received a of in the ment of the steamship In control of the I. M. he were P. A. S. Roosevelt and Vincent At a press held as Mitchell President velt said he approved that contract because of a stipulation that the company would a bate on the home rule Pointing out that He termed it silly to ex- 72-year-old his white beard bobbing up and down in emphasis of his con- cafeteria turned to democracy with the laboratories crime and Hitler in tion today as rewards for the arrest and distinctly to and conviction killer passed from under the of the whose almost nude body was found on a blanket in Springdale Cemetery early Monday after she had been beaten and were sent to tlie crime detection laboratory at the Northwestern whose questioning of half a dozen persons failed to disclose a lead to the hoped that science might detect in the tiny of accumulations a definite clue on which to continue the In- the benefit of the politics and he make the United States an exceedingly poor example for the Indian people under the provisions of the would have a modified federal tem of He asserted that he saw men starving In the very fertile ince of Illinois they were burning their crops because they could askert why they did not bring that food to those starving the are involved in cratic tlie speaker declared too often of the most interesting places I saw in he a place where gangsters went firing In. a busy Why had they been able to do that? Because The the everybody is un- der the there is money ster can shoot with As no money to be made chare need be no He Mussolini as great and said f Italy again goes by boards with the general approval of ought we not to go with very ful steps In democracy to the company to take if it it .to apply the amount of that loss to building the also said the Roosevelt Steamship headed .by a son of dore received increases from to and 000 per voyage in shipping board compensation for operating all only on the recommendation of company Members of the committee re- objected that the presented by Mitchell was a repetition of received by itself and the committee headed by Senator Black Continued Page 7, Austin June age to major bridges on State ways by floods has been estimated the State Highway Department to be the loss 01: the Nueces River bridge on south of heavy damage to Nueces River bridge on 3 west of loss of the bridge on Highway 71, in Travis and damage to the Colorado River bridge on Highway SI at the Saba County line; also loss of Llano er bridge in Llano on Highway 20; damage to Llano bridge south of Mason on Highway 0: loss of Colorado River bridge on way C6 at Marble damage to the Brazos bridge way south of West and several Red River structures in the Wichita Vernon Damage structures and roadway throughout the State is estimated at ing in addition to the Associated LITTLE June Dealing crop and property age along its 375-mile zigzag course through the the Ar- kansas River today smashed two more threatened a dozen others and pushed water over a area in the city of Little Official sources declined to placa an estimate on the high water damage as as hourly reports of new inundations in some 200 ties presented a constantly ing Reports from over the affected more than much of it in gone under From Fort on the homa to Desna in far southeastern corner of State where Arkansas is i ing a muddy flood into the men pitted themselves against the striving to make levees hold against stages which are already near the trous 1327 levels and due to In Central Little North Little Rock and Bluff battled the flood on ened river Two squads of militiamen called out by Governor patrolled levees in front of ing guard back as 500-men wall with i Associated June ters of Colorado swirled through the tions Wednesday and was curb deep streets of the business section rise of nearly two feet no loss and property damage will be comparatively The crest of the flood was ing downstream at a decreased rats compared the speed with which the poured through La Grange and Columbus the river left its Observers estimated the crest will not pass Wharton until the early hours of About 200 more refugees were Wednesday to the three re- lief camps established in- Wharton by a relief committee organized by the Chamber of Commerce and the Wharton chapter of the Red Wait For The late the most part lived iiv or near the town ot Wharton and remained in their homes until the them to evacuate More than refugees the farming above below the exposed parts of the city were in the relief camps Wednesday while at least 200' more had sought tuary with relatives and Backwater from the flood halted traffic on Highway 12 east of Wharton Wednesday and the same highway of the river was expected to be closed Continued on Page 2. Column 1. THREE BUILDINGS AT BALLS BLOWN DOWN damage to The total estimated loss to the State Department from IT- I flood damage is approximately 1919 High 200000 At Station CORPUS June 13 River flood water from Three stood six inches above the high water of 1913 at the pump tion today and still It. is the worst flood in the city's Arrangements have been mads to send one of the city fire engine pumpers .to take of in the chinery room at the water already had begun to Associated June buildings in the downtown ness section were about 15 roofs in the residential district were blown off and 30 windmills toppled when a high wind struck Kails at this afternoon and lasted 45 W. E. Rails cafe was seriously cut by glass when plate glass window he was attempting to brace About 15 other display windows were PORTLAND FINE Associated June man who identified himself as John Con at stance of suburban residents for paid a fine of today rather than serve time in He said the re- from the Angeles Conley was found to In his shoes and In his into the rooms Water stood 12.3vfeet at the Inches above the 12.3 foot of 1018, It is expected to 14 x Bridges Stand tip Flood waters of the Biver were about per hour at Cotulla Wednesday and revealed that both the Laredo highway anC Missouri Pacific bridges withstood assault although are open to traffic and probably will not be until The bridge apparently is The level Wednesday was below the bridge roadway but the south approach a distance of soma 200 feet was washed It Continued on Pase 2, Column 2l
