San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - February 15, 1936, San Antonio, Texas SUNDAY EXPRESS The circulation ot the Sunday Express la now the largest In Ita preference tells Ita own VOL. 46 HAMBONE SAYS Ever how many quote burner and with of Ban Antonio SAN SATURDAY FEBRUARY 15. 1936 the National Traffic Safety contest is growing in last year's record cities and 33 States ably will be exceeded in 1936. So predicts the sponsoring on the basis of interest already The first State to enter for this year was Indiana and the first large city ivas Of the National Safety cil would like to enroll the 48 States and all cities and towns in the Then that tion more easily could reach the goal set for itself this ducing the traffic toll by at least 7 per cent. It seeks a 35 per cent reduction by 1941. RECORD of the past four an- competitions conclusively shows that the contest is a strong incentive to For in 1933 the cities enrolled reduced their death rate by 5.7 per cent on the Those which remained in until the end and submitted re- ports cut the toll by 7.6 per cent. The 57 cities which won awards showed 22.2 per cent Had ail the American cities done as some lives lost in the traffic that year would have been As the competing community must report to the contest committee once a the traffic officials put forth ex- efforts to keep down in order to make as favorable a report as As a motorists and pedestrians also become Pension Racket Inquiry Asked In Lower House Missourian Wants to Know Where Old Money Goes 3i-Partisan Board of 8 posed for gation Associated Feb. mating that annual contributions to the Townsend plan organization van as high as sentative Bell today asked the House Rules Com- to report favorably a lution to Investigate promoters of the Rell the committee that he to know only the fect of the Townsend hut the kind of people who are WINDS which lately swept across the North Plains Country and the Middle West to the tic one zard after blown jrood to South Texas truck The prolonged cold increased the demand for cabbages and other green As a San Antonio Market News Bureau movement out of Texas in- creased 13 per cent as compared with 1935. During the first week in February shipments shot tip 73 per cent. January total was as against a year For the first in this month carloads as compared with 947 for the first week in 1935. was most in but sales of turnips and greens relatively ed to seven times the movement tit this period last The report also indicates that Texas are a new type of market the smaller which arc reached by the mixed Through that ment many consumers who for- merly depended upon roundabout distribution arc supplied with fresh vegetables direct from South Texas That new method contains possibilities as yet several years past at this 4-H Club hoys in South and West Texas have exhibited baby dairy lambs and other meat animals which they have conditioned for the under their Such a project gives the youth practical drill in husbandry which he hardly could obtain in any other The club boy is responsible for his if he usually stands to profit He therefore has a double incentive to take care of his animal as he is taught to The annual fat stock long lists of awards and auction stimulate the young husbandman to do his such a show be held in every county once a the livestock industry would profit the older stockman also learns from the boy's project and the annual The recent spread of the movement is highly One of the oldest institutions of the kind is the Mason County 4-H Club show and auction It be held at Mason on February day before the West Texas Fat Stock Show shall open its first presentation in San The Mason County youths regularly have won honors at San Angelo and Houston re- gional shows and the Fort Worth Fat Stock Thus it is not surprising that the entry list should break the 10-year The quality of animals will wise set a new high Those exhibitors will be strong con- tenders at San but they will meet formidable hind The parent he is a of three F. E. 11. E. and a brother of Dr. Late m the Chairman O'Connor New of j the rules committee told the House that if the Bell resolution is re- he plans to call it up for action next Wednesday before the House starts consideration of the new farm Bell's original resolution called for a investigating com- He revised it today to vide for an of four Democrats and four Re- publicans to make it Bell was joined by tive Ferguson in appearing before the committee to urge tho sentative Smith advised Chairman O'Connor New he wanted to appear in Smith requested permission to ask either Bell or Ferguson a denied the 1'ijt added the committee would hear Smith when hearings are re- only wanted to ask the tlemen whether there has been any demand from any bers of Townsend clubs for this said The said estimates of receipts of the Townsend ization vary from to 200.000. Bell said a 25 cents fee is collected from all plus 10 cents a He told the committee additional funds are collected from other including the sale of Townsend photographs of Dr. Knife That Cuts Head From King Brings Only Louis XVI Guillotine at Paris Associated f Feb. knife which democracy to when it separated Louis XVI from his head was sold today at The now rusty and brought the small sum of 2.500 franc Documents from two oc France's foremost authorities on the French Georges Lenotre and Frantz attesting the authenticity of the heavy 17V.- were given the The knife was used first by ri official headsman of the First in the tine erected in the de la He it was who placed the king's head on the block nnd pulled the cord brought an to the Bourbon Jan 21. 17113. When popular against excessive ended its revolutionary the knife re- activity chopping the bends j off France's In 1SSO, it retired from service nnd became the properly of the widow of the She sold it to a curio collector in for 4.000 francs PRICE 5 1865 SENATE DELAYS LAND Saturday Session to Start Early to Complete Congressional Action DEBENTURES OUT Amendment to Curb Powers Of Secretary Wallace Approved ATTACK ON T ATTEMPT MYSTIC Even NRA or AAA Can Be Legalized in 11 Months If New Deal Chooses py Tear sOthers Tanker Re ported Sinking ORDERLY WAY Repeated Outbursts From Pious Quarter Not cive to Good Government Associated Feb. 14.__TJuIl- ing over all major in- the Export Debenture the Senate today established a strong support Administration Land Subsidy but postponed a final vole until Democratic leaders set row's session an than customary In an effort to drive the legislation through to the House well before There i Pending when a recess was taken late this afternoon were can substitutes calling for Hy DAVID 13.16. San Antonio nr Norris father of i the TVA and the man whom idem tor i tenure in tlie favors laws bv ing nnd judicial power of tin also a Constitutional ment to give right to deal with agriculture as National way knowing to what Norris purposes of New but it I significant that the on th Supreme Court by Kc to other dealers who brought knife back to its native the tt Si COTTON SALE APPROVED Measure Reported to Senate Over Opposition of Officials purchases by the government and a minority move to recommit the lilli for public Punctuating the amendment balloting was another hot debate over the Supreme Court's de- which made ihe pending leg I slat if in Senator Robinson of the majority said ill court had ihe value of its i own derision by holding 1 lure to be a local j tor Norris again assailed the tribunal as a 13r, s. and Dickinson a defense hy I in Interest of what they termed it to I.e n f I if The J iam ami tn the idea that in his tu thn power of i rrt tv n 14 a I list liy remarks In rimo of make it n fort tn if tn punish thn Supremo Court for its opinions n ml I liar t bo lias DIE RESORT HOTEL Firemen pouring water into the of the Victoria Mansion Hotel at N. was swept by early morning Sixteen persons in the wooden many were bile stickers and the Townsend Ferguson told the committee the Townsend official maintains the Associated Feb. U. the opposition of j the Senate I approved the Smith hill directing the sale of mately 5.000.000 bales nf cotton in weekly blorks of between and The vote was 13 to The introduced by Senn Smith of committee had been be- fore tile committee nearly two weeks for secret It would set up a board of three to sell the Smith contends the large government holdings are a dras on the market and ing of them in small weekly tho Provides Thr hill .is it through the of proposed chants today would provide a dual system of i federal to farmers i for not planting certain crops and j a n o t h o r a s stair n ts after t o years for the same join the system immediately if they the The export debenture phi n. of- hy was i 42 to tho closest roll call on tho Jt had carried in 102H durin Continued would not a f feel He Kirn that Congress is just on the argues 25.000 the verge of passing the necessary maximum allowed tn be yold at one clarion If clubs will JH j fl rom the just keep up their dues world consumption of American Ferguson added that the leaders cotton in one afraid to come out in the ami tell their clubs that the original a month pension for every person fiO years of raised hy a 1' pet is not contained in tho hy Representative send leader in the The he vides for a a of receipts manager of the cotton pool and first vice president of the Federal Com- 77iorlity Credit Corporation which cent j controls much of the de- scribed the as in that it proposed of tho staple re- to cannot arbitrarily he said in a letter to must he sold when and ff there is a market or de- mn ft unsound to force upon the any specific quantity of however Johnston also contended the eliminate a very from the 2 per cent transactions tax and not a fixed a month TRANS-PACIFIC PLANE RETURNS TO ALAMEDA Associated Presst ALA ME Feb. 14. Swept eastward by a 40-mile China Clipper alighted here after abandoning her attempted to the The ship was 1.000 miles at sea when the dwindling fuel used tip as the ship fought caused Capt. Mustek to riyht It made the return trip in 7 Vi at p. tn. p. m. Pacific Standard Weather Man Sez San Antonio and Cloudy with moderate northeast to east East Mostly cloudy Saturday and al rains warmer In north portion colder in west portion d a y Moderate northeast and east winds on the West Partly cloudy Saturday and colder In north portion Hourly Temperature SAN Feb. 13-14, 1936: 8p.m....... 9 10 11 12 1 2a.m....... 3 4 5 6a.m....... 7 8a.m... 9 10a.m... 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ROOT HELD FIRST Celebrates 91st Birthday Today Continued Page 3. 6, Associated W I years old acclaimed today a li vins A have in the nf International re- A bust uf Hunt by thn Corporation of of which he to the Council nf of which he was accepted by Jo tin W. a 1'ornvi' president of Until present n f tlir ceremony and as lo on the promises when I am said On whn has s rasped the of in world of international f fairs and whose imagination has kopt file nf that mnn is A quiet birthday at as hns been his custom in recent was indicated fnr Root declined to IIP iu heins made that tlie Constitution does not have a liiv in it tho to tlie Court of the United to acts of This is a n con but it has never bee emphasized when smile cisions of the umpire happen un i against Mie parties at The Constitution j in what Con- j Kress is to do and it speaks of j in rhat the alone is lo cise that fund As for a nil inn tive t hero is n line in tut inn which enables a senator to ind of i nit fly n-1 kenp from as the late did last There is imt a lino in the til at enables n member nf Congress tn use the mails free nf There is not a lino jn the wb irh per m its senatorial tn tive or functions or to in the affairs of i he fit LETHAL 1SPAJCHES KILLER PASSES HOUSE Slayer of Two in Colorado Sets Inhales Deadly Gas ord for Military Quickly By Associated CANON Feb. 14. Otis 30, was executed in the lethal gas chamber at the Stute ry here for slaying Sheriff W. W. nf died at p. The man to the gas at nnd Ihn door at Inter small of poison worn dropped into a solution and be- gan in- Associated Feb. 14. The largest army appropriation in for passed by the House today without a record vote and sent to the The measure was fought to the j very end of its by a of mid- j western opponents of big spending who mustered only 3I> j standing votes to the 204 that passed it. Crew of Tug Escapes When Big Blocks Stove in Her Sides Associated Feb. 13.__A. iiv WHS an oil tanker he was and at three ships whirled River here in Kiip of an cf ami Sunk the river ce jam was he Mary n was r Haven Hello with all her iboa rd. In path of the raft lay two oast Guard he and the sent ere to the jam and frozen in. First victim of rivr was the Buffeted by the akes and with her sides stove in. Worst In 117 Years Associated DEs Feb. 14. timers to the C. Federal gist reported is the longest spell of cold weather Iowa has endured in 117 can he the famous cold snaps when they were but the temperature records in Des bureau office speak for themselves without any ence on weather bureau go hack to 1S7S. but he has compiled monthly mean reports back to 1S10. from army post by reports of private weather The present cold wave con- over Iowa Jan. 22 ing the 21 days from Jan. 22 to Feb. 11. the age temperature at DCS Moines was degrees below the all-time low temperature record for 21 successive the weather man piling this record of bitter And the worst of it the end is not in sight for are sinking down far below It 333 would appropriate 76.S6P.- j her for national defense Ami there is nut a line in the i which to levy the property of the lias its and increased it over the span of The answer made hy that the people ean de- feat a every two Hut ean Under the system j of tho nin of tile United States is more i especially when he has limited funds at his than almost of both of A president bo j defeated once in four but tlie party to which be belongs ean under the present system ate itself 'n power hy the use the very spoils system which Mexican Religious Laws to Be Strictly Says Official Answering Statement ly Church Associated MEXICO Feb. 4. A high Mexican official said privately night the laws will con- to strictly in commenting upon a. Catholic Church statement terming those laws the of some in a letter dispatched yesterday by the Catholic Episcopate asking prelates of other nations to for the cial the church fails to ex- plain Is that the present laws Three resent reaction from years when the church controlled ab- the political life ot the Asked the church would be allowed freedom to explain Its viewpoints and to attack tional and religious he said depends upon the But Gen. Lazaro the youngest president in Mexico's is so absorbed in attempting to solve labor it was generally that he will take no notice of ehurch The government's viewpoint is that the church's power is legally limited by the Constitution and state statues and that these won't be In yesterday's letter Mexican prelates said the number of priests and churches is limited under these that churches the erty of the nation and that any home or building in which a re- ligious ceremony is performed is subject to A strike movement continued to spread in the accenting the current discord between capital more German establishments were closed because they deal with a factory making goods for export to the Reich at which a strike is now in It was announced that 03 stores will be shut tomorrow unless the owners meet the demands of an employes after settling two im- portant strikes in left for Nuevo Leon to study an agricultural going to effort to One man the power than one justice the supreme court in a to 4 de- Against a president who refuses to a law some statute that he the must marshal at least of both The president is thus stronger than a ity of both As for the supreme whose members are appointed for life KO as to remove them from there is an It is by i nays it years amend the It took I about nine months to repeal the I 18th Amendment when thirds of both houses agreed to it. Only 11 months wove er Congress had submitted Senator own ment to the for the requisite baled immediately and smiled as he entered the chamber and waved his hand tc the witnesses wa through lie helped the warden adjust the and body straps after don't need tn put these straps on me. I can take this standing The beetle-browed slayer of the sheriff and a sheep man had ed for stiff drink of before his Warden Best explaining vise of liquor violates prison Yesterday lie jested when denied the to sit with 100 convicts watch a of ihy ex- with a ns the lint he awoke nervously at dawn today after n restless recited prayers with the prison then off his sweater and exercised up in the prison despite the in- purposes and for ers and harbors flood control went down in river with tied ib Her Torn fro their moorings were the steamer That did not the ami a James oil contract authorization and bringing the pure- ly military funds 1H30-37 available for the Ice cakes thrown onto tons were the Buxton wharf and many feet along Dock A surge of water ered Dock and nearby streets to year to What It Contains Pome of the bis depth Before Money and authorization for the i it subsided considerable damage purchase of Still new all j had been but of them for the regular I j Score nt Towns Stipulation that the enlisted army ex- be brought to least Partitions prepared for new at- by June 30, tempts to reach snowbound com- short of the maximum today as one of the permitting full i CBt waves of the Midwest's at Hawaii and I winter swept 1 A total of for j ward the coast defense on the West in of deaths from stov zt ro I Hawaii and at the Panama i to increase the National I Guard strength by officers sand men and to up 4 i of its heavy rolled j more drills and more caretakers to its for a Later as he was visited by bis IS. serving life for the same two killings those of James snow anil fire were counted throughout the Northern Hemi- sphere while concern over the fare of the residents of more than a dozen marooned South Dakota villages prompted formation of re- lief An airplane was equipped with at Belle for year's servo duty for aerial survey oC isolated Continued on 3. Column 3. Continued on Pape 3, Column 4. DOG FROZEN WHILE ON RUN IN MISSOURI U. S. Feed Trough Within 2 Years Pie Eaters Now Beyond Million Mark Associated KANSAS Associated ployes added to Government pay rolls reported by the Civil today to have jump of pel the last two Training Corps graduates 50 of the to lie assigned finally to the Limitation of 10 per on profits of contractors and supplying the army with arms ammunition and the uml Harbors Provision of for rivers ami harbors of which is. for actual Meade County A huge tractor and snow plow was wheeled Continued on Page 3. Column 1. H more than men I Woodrum of the Appropriations which had refused the been so cold here that a dop froze i women now work for the on the Employes of the lesls Mrs. Louise auto saw the either a dos or a literally j not recorded on civil service l th and judicial branches and asserted navy and marine l He announced he was Tampico Sunday in an Continued on Page 3, Column 3. frozen in its on the Blue River near Kansas At first she she thought it was just standing but she watched it for a long time and it never moved a The animal was in a running are listed by the budget bureau as ative Dochweiler of sarae said Members of. j the Civilian Conservation Corps to the half ar- not i Nevertheless Total salaries of the 000 to the pleas employes amount to more than Woe a Continued on Page 8, Column 5. Enlist Interest Of Consumers You can enlist the interest of consumers buyers for 1. 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