San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - July 1, 1936, San Antonio, Texas Summer manj bouti to The dally adrice ol Myrtle Elred In San Antonio been found are VOL. 183 In fcn Antonio turn difference about new auo SAN WEDNESDAY JULY 1, 1936-EIGHTEEN PAGES ALWAYS a memorable occasion this year the Fourth of July in South Texas be observed more elaborately than ever before The citizen who likes to take his family on tour for the day or the will have a wide choice I among places to Considering Ithe added significance the I linking of the one hundred sixtieth of the Declaration vith the hundredths year of Texas vn independence gives the ob- communities that have Lie a great deal of years have planned to uss previous Some open the celebrations today up the festivities through Many more have L three-day T one city has eight-day county-wide Williamson County ts Association will open reunion at Harrell ark in Round Rock on run it through July 11. to the typical fice Day entertainment ire provided in Texas band baseball and other rodeo and have planned folk historical exhibits and Underlying all such will be the as the example and for the Declaration Washington on the 2, 1836. The latter its as well as are amenable for their the public opinion of MONG the brations is Brady's July Jubilee Centennial opening today and running through the That city has traditions to uphold and its own history to Tomorrow will open numerous festivals in South and West Texas widely noted for their brations on or around the Pecos will begin its Wild West Rodeo and Stamford its famed Cowboy Reunion and On the same day at the ican Legion will initiate its day patriotic demonstration in con- with the University of Texas Centennial will see other tions under American frion Livestock Show and Cotulla's nial Eagle Border Jubilee last through Dn Independence Day Port Lavaca and New fels and many celebrate WO civic agency is working harder or more fully for San Antonio's present advantage and future growth than he Chamber of Commerce Con- this city's status as a place for regional and Jonal gatherings has been elevated A typical report is hat for the last week in shows six additional ions pledged for 1037. At that ate the department's goal con- tention a set for 1936 and will be reached difficulty again next 7OR the Texas and National Reserve will come to San An- most as this s a leading military The Trans-Mississippi Golf for 1937 will be held n this city of year-round outdoor Pi Omicron sorority will lave its national reunion The Texas Association of Life and the General Association also will meet n San Antonio next Within he past week Arthur the Convention Department's invitations to Texas rans of Foreign Texas and the National Retail Association to visit San Antonio in 1937. Some or all of hose invitations doubtless will be Now that the Inter- American Highway is formally pen from the border to the City f this city has additional fractions to offer convention Seguin Deluged Fireman of M. P. Freight Missing After Engine Turns Over CLOUDS OPEN OP Guadalupe on Rise After 10- Inch Rain at boring City June inch rain in six here day washed out a small bridge over derailed the en- gine a freight and blocked traffic on the San The fireman the whose name was not and it was not determined whether he was buried under the engine or had washed down the The J. C. minor The mishap occurred at the Plum Creek crossing one mile north Kyle when a small bridge gave Highway traffic was both and south when the approaches to the new bridge over the Blanco River on Highway 2 were washed The Blanco was on a 20-foot FLOOD THREATENS Most of 10-Inch Rain Falls In Two-Hour Period After a 10-inch rain at Seguin and on an expected rise of 4Q_feet in Guadalupe down was under way Tuesday night at the power plant en the river one and one-half miles south of the Movable equipment in the basement of the building being the total rainfall of 9.79 es Monday night and 7.46 fell between and p. m. according to B. F. weather At the same time reports were received at Se guin that the Guadalupe was ex- ot reach a crest of 40 which would be two feet more than occurred In 1935, when the ground floor of the power plant was The n s tailed storm sewers carried off Tuesday's but the apron for the system on in the south part of was washed Kalns that In intensity from 2 to 7.4 inches in various had swamped Southwest Texas generally without serious damage Tuesday but the eve of opening the great new interna tional highway to Mexico City found the section washed out n five places between San Antonio and San Antonio's highway links with Laredo and Bandera were Abutments on the Blanco River bridge on the near Kyle were reported washed out late The Laredo road was under water n five the first impassable being Medina River crossing 12 miles The lera road was closed at traffic to Laredo was being to Alice and Corpus but motorists were being warned o make frequent Highway officials were looking or trouble on the detour near oria If the heavy rains continue and announced if necessary the new road will be The between Uvalde and Springs was likewise reported 4.12 Inches of Monday and Monday to the total to 7.4 Inches Since Saturday The Missouri underpass four miles north of Pearsall was five feet of and traffic was S. P. Bridge Out The Southern Pacific reported several stretches of right way out between Eagle Pass and Spofford and under three feet Trains were halted un- late The lines Continued on Page Column 1, Weather Man Sez Snn Antonio and Scattered East Wednesday and In east Fresh to occasion Hy strong southerly winds on the West fair day and Thursday except showers In portion Hourly Temperature San June 1936. 8 p. 8 a p. 9 a. 0 10 a. 1 p. 11-a. 2 12 1 1 p. 2 a. 2 p. 3 a. 3 p. 4 a- 4 p. 5 a. 5 p. 8 a. m g p. 7 a. 7 p. FISCAL NEW YEAR PRODUCES ONLY Bigger and Worse ture of Other People's Money in Prospect WITH Emotional Outburst Only An- swer New Deal Makes To Pointed Queries By DAVID 1336, San Antonio June 30. Today is the end of another fiscal year for the Government ot the United Judging by what one heard at the New Deal convention last the American people are asked to believe that well on its recovery Is here or that President HAILE BITTERLY ASSAILS LEAGUE Fascist Hecklers Thrown Out And Swiss Have lem of What to Do Mm Thompson 25, an who was beaten to death in her room in a hotel while her 7-year-old son by a former James Thompson lay at her He told police a negro entered the beat and choked his then wrote on a mirror with and caped through a window 7 His Reaction to Tragedy Be- Unusual by Investigators Associated June com- plete recheck ot all possibilities Jn the hotel room slaying of comely Mrs. Florence Thompson 24, night club was ordered as Police Capt. William O'Brien announced he was not over- looking the chance that even her might have ed the mystifying a terrible thing to the captain it's more than He surmised that the lad have to shoot firecrackers on the Fourth of over maternal police to Continued on Page 3, Column 4. and his policies have brought in fact have cued the country from the depths of despair in 1933. as the figures are made it now appears that the deficits are bigger each year and the amount to be spent for re- let in 1937 will far exceed what was spent in time when civilization in America was posed to be an The total debt since the sion started is now in the of of which about was In- curred during the Hoover stration and about aince March 4. 1933. Relief Cost No official explanation has been given as to why relief expenditures are to be larger in the fiscal year which begins tomorrow than they were In the fiscal year just Nor has there been any lack of- curiosity on the tor Byrd tried to ind out on the last day Congress vas in session and he questioned Senator Barkley was to be the keynote er at the Philadelphia convention 1 hence might be presumed to speak with knowledge and y. Here is an excerpt from the No Senator on this floor who has demanded a re of the expenditures of our has as yet pointed ou where that reduction ought to be I ran point on where the reduction can be made Very I offered an amend ment to the deficiency tion to reduce the relief tion 20 per cent. That was now I want to ask the senator at this point whether he thinks the government should spend more in the fiscal year 1037 than it will spend In the year in view of the ment in conditions throughout the That Old I say the ment ought tp spend 000 or any other amount that is necessary to keep American men women and children from starving to death or freezing in the winter from Does the think that more money will be needed in 1037 to keep them from starving and freezing than Is needed in There was no answer on that point and the debate which Senator Byrd came back to the same point the senator from Co tinned on Page 3. Column I. CASH BALANCE FOR YEAR June sas closed Its fiscal year tonight with a cash balance of mately A. R. state Jones said indications were the state has nearly more In the treasury than the cash balance June 30, Pollard Returning From New Deal Reveals All Was Not As Lovely at Meet as Pretended Austin 30.- For- mer State Senator Thomas G. lard oC who was a delegate at was here and predicted four years hence the Texas will the policies and attitude of stale In national tion instead of who hold office in Washington or had particular reference the selection of Karl Crowley as the i Texas member of the platform is solicitor for the Postoffice Department and Was the choice of the opposed by andi some ot the other members CrOwley's designation near only rift in Tie Texas Pollard ally yielded to Importunities and fight against ey in the Interest of presenting a harmonious front the which was again to offer John N. Garner for as vice have always supported Tom and was for Crowley for his present Federal well as having a genuine affection for Congressman Sam and I still said know the sentiment of a ity and as there will be no future dictation to the democracy of Texas by the holders They are the servants ot Texas not That Is the feeling and it Is sate to predict that four from now the Texas delegation will say who are to have the poiU of honor and they will not be made to follow the Washington At Philadelphia Pollard said the have the ments want all the Contl on Page 1, Column 1. HOPE GONE and History Will Re- Exiled Em- peror Tells World June scenes of cursing and fighting in the galleries shattered the dignity of the League of assembly tonight when black-robed little Emperor Halle Selassie told the world's de- us to Police were called In to restore order after a chorus of heckling and curses greeted the em- peror without an empire when he rose to make a dramatic for It was almost 10 minutes before police restored order and the while ruler of Africa's last empire was allowed to resume and bitterly tell the league and history will remember your Persons alleged to be started the shouting curses at the Negus French and broke out when league attaches tried to restore when police and ousted the hecklers was calm re- Millions Officials of the League nf tions announced tonight they would cancel press cards of Italians as a result nf the demonstration against the The standing committee of the International Association of to the league adopted a and condemning the conduct of a group of Italian The political atmosphere was tense as a group of Italians ar- rested in the galleries was still held by political police on charges of disorderly conduct and Authorities said they were al t was to decide whether Fascist could be punished under the criminal There were unconfirmed Premier angered at the privilege of and courtesies extended to the might with draw Italy from the When the demonstration in the was squelched by police Hail Selassie said what he had to calmly und could not belie e that 52 them the most In the be de- by a single he said The emperor warned smal PRICE 5 Lehman Bows By Will Run For New York Governor Lehman Bank Aids In Flaunting Truckers Tell I. C. C. Deal Smacking of Eco- nomic Royal ism Bowing to Warned The protesting truckers asserted Keeshin and the firm had paid for control of board late in 1935, before ICC approval and In violation of the 1935 act. Seaboard operations included most of the eastern seaboard and coastal States from New England to Keeshin also headed truck operating companies in T T I June L. that extended from New York to who has built up a Chicago and down to the Gulf of wide motortruck network during Mexico with a maze of connecting recent ana his financial the New York banking house of- Lehman were objects of a sharply worded attack filed today with Interstate Commerce Gov. man ot New York is the surviving brother in the Lehman Counsel for the Middle Atlantic Motor Carrier contended Keeshin and the banking firm had used a In an effort to avoid terms of the 1935 motor carrier act which The truckers asserted that the Seaboard stockholders received their money last winter although the ICC application was not filed until May this They contended title to the board properties was taken by Motor a. corporation said to have been formed by Lehman employes with only to which a was The ICC was told that tige of distinguished financiers GIVES IN 10 BIG PRESSURE Roosevelt and Farley New York Thus Made Safe for New Deal Placed transportation un- and counsel or the der the ICC Claiming to represent 500 motor carriers with a total annual ness of more than the attorneys asked the ICC to refuse authorisation for purchase of the Seaboard Freight Lines by the Keeshin Transcontinental Freight Inc. ableness of requiring the eggs to be should not halt of the Counsel for the truckers said banking firm and Keeshin started in the of 1935 to build operations Continued on Page 3, Column 8 Continued on Page 3. Column SLAYER OF TWO SEEN AS SUICIDE Beats Couple to Death and Gravely Injures Two Others Jims A merciless clubber attacked an en- tire household a couple outright and gravely injuring two women Tonight some voiced belief man sought in the killings may have committed Dead were Adam 62. and his 52. In a hospital dants held scant hope for Mrs. Snyder's Mrs. Emma Scott Mrs. Grace 25, daughter of the was injured less Only curly-haired Betty deaf-mute daughter of Mrs. Mortensen by a former the dazed and could give Investigators little But police Sgt. L. M. Hilton said the child's mother flatly accused icr blonde old George Mortensen of Salt Lake Mrs. Mortensen said she eft because he too did the sergeant said woman told him repeatedly In he brief her lon Adam S. Snyder Jr. eaid he be It had killed himself as extended up and down the Verdant Valley along Great Salt between Ogden and Salt Lake A taxi Farrel applied the first In the for 3- nch cosmetics Rushton said he picked up a ex- man about 8 a. letting him out near a This was an hour after the mute child ran tearfully into a neighborhood grocery near the Snyder clerk called Officers said they were at what they Snyder dead In her face Continued on Page 3, Column i. LIBERTY LEAGUE CALLS FARLEY Wants Concrete Evidence to Back Some of His Loose Talk NEW Juno ex- committee ot the American Liberty League tonight Issued a statement charging Postmaster General James A. Farley with and defamatory against the The statement was issued after a meeting of the executive tee which was attended by former Alfred E. Irenee Du Jouett president of the and Capt. W. H. the Farley was charged specifically in the committee's statement with having said in a speech at the Philadelphia Democratic National the Republican ticket Is the crew of the Du Pont Liberty League and their which have sc far financed every undercover agency that has disgraced American politics with their appeals to race religious intolerance and personalities so gross that they had to be repudiated by the regular Re- publican They will continue to disown these snaky to seek to profit by The committee said the league Mr. Farley to produci concrete evidence in support of his The committee the American erty League has not attempted to defend itself against the malicious and tered by spokesmen for the New It glories jn the fact its advocacy of constitutional ciples has aroused the bitter en- mity of men who would overthrow these Speaking of the League attributed to Farley the committee false and defamatory language goes beyond the limit of self-respect and cannot remain Un- It is Incredible that any no matter what his occupying high official position would In any make such representations without convincing American Liberty League Continued on Page 3, Column 3. J. P. MORGAN ILL IN THREE STATES Fugitives Release Youth Seized at Buck Creek At Oklahoma Line WEST June vorld famous was ried In an ambulance and then In a police authorities said to a special railroad car which Immediately for 3oston and New His Mrs. Stephen V. R. Insisted he June half-starved fugitive Texas adoes were hunted by officers of three states in their mad flight from the prison where they guard and escaped 11 days Seizing 19-year-old Hugh Pogue at the identified by Sheriff F. D. of as Luke and Forrest re- leased him unharmed at the Red then sped Into East of they ed In si scuffle with Mrs. K. L. and her Pete at Mrs. er's seized auto- mobile and fled Mangum New Mexico On Alert N. officers scattered out along highways leading from Texas into New Mexico after re- reports the fugitives held up a hank at and with At officers kept Continued on Page 3, Column 7. N. June Herbert H. Lehman announced day he would run for a third term and fight for un- der the Roosevelt His 200-word statement at a. noon press conference reversed decision publicly disclosed a ago to quit feel that I can no longer re- sist the pleas of my party or ot those with whom I in the closest association for years and with whom I waged the fight for equal opportunity social the governor Foremost among those associates is President and the chief executive was to applaud the decision of the will be a good Influence for the carrying out of our of social legislation in the broadest the President told White House most at the same moment the ernor was holding his press con- ference in His President disclosed that he had written a long letter to his former lieutenant governor yesterday pleading for Postmaster General James Farley at Atlantic and Lehman will ry New York State by this year than did iti 1932." There followed a train oC tions from Democratic the State and but in York's Tammany there was little Republican leaders wers not elow to Interpret Lehman's Al leading for State Senator George R. Fearon of The only reason he's running Is to help in the re-election of ident Roosevelt and the ment of a New Deal It must be apparent to everyone that Mr. Lehman Is at heart not a but a New Al Smith Al the man who Lehman to politics In 1928, and teamed up Roosevelt and man In a successful State ticket that was in a meeting at League leaders when statement was He was Today's statement clinches at Democratic convention in There Lehman for the first publicly made a choice between the two friends who jointly sponsored Continued on Page 3. Column 4. strange turn in political which was foreshadowed Wallace Denounces Federal Republic And All Who Support American Wants Commonwealth NEW June 30. The ad- sharpest critic ot the Supreme Court in a book to be published tomorrow groups that body with the Republican party the of the doctrine of rights any Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. In a book called and the Liberty League as holders least part of Whose calls for likewise establishment of a and ports he was in a only said that re- serious lon were Railroad said the car waa ordinary Morgan lad been WB sister Harvard ment two weeks was slightly ill and went ack to Long Island That's all I can tell Crosby operative a operative It was Wallace who publicly some months ago that the court's return to processors of collected under the defunct AAA permitted legalized Balancing a major part of the book's philosophy on the thesis that this was intended to be a ot people instead of the secretary doctrine ot now Invoked by the Supreme was a barrier to progress even in 1787. and was the cause of terrible conflict In 1S61. the states mark no economic boundaries that make He went the large the Republican New the Liberty League and moat of the ox the country are apparently for rights today at any these and however be added one other At least part of the the Supreme Court has disagreed In a number of Instances the position taken by the ministration on the matter of eral the ase of it held that the commerce clause of tho did not give the eral government the powers it hait assumed to set up rules for In the case oC it held that agriculture was a local and that its whether or not In the Interests of the eral is a power not granted to the Federal do not doubt that through the multiplicity of legal precedents available to Supreme Court It is possible to take a narrow of the constitution which virtually limits the scope of granted eral to those which would have seemed useful under the con- ditions of- 1787." agriculture truly a local matter In 1336, as the Supreme Court says It half of the people of the United would quickly The who said It be that the tional convention of 17S7 was by the propertied the for solution of our present lay in the constitution It- he went to up the constitution a sacred and changeless authority on changing material conditions In to deny the kernal and the Saying the people must actively Imbued with the idea of co-operative added he believed the majority alJ ready was to the eral purposes and of a co-operative
