San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - August 5, 1936, San Antonio, Texas NEWS For more than 70 years San Antonio Express has been giving its readers the That is its first concern FEATURES In San Antonio for service at Readers enjoy and alto appreciate VOL. 218 SAN WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 1936 PAGES PRICE 5 1866 QN the the Government be- gan purchasing cattle from farmers in- the Grain Belt as a relief Governor to for co-operation with farmers in practical plans for ing livestock Thereby he applied to a present situation the principles emphasized in his acceptance ad- have always been a self-reliant people in An acute on livestock farms demands prompt It is my hope and belief that it will not be necessary to sacrifice any large number of valuable by sending them to the Livestock has always been regarded as the best farm There should be a pood market and good prices next This is one of the strongest possible reasons for livestock men to hold on and for their ties to co-operate with them in holding LANDON therefore poses a concerted movement by Kansas of commerce and other civic prevent farmers from sacrificing the cattle because of the As he if the animals can be saved they will be worth probably twice as much next The Governor does not specify how that is to be but probably the banks could advance on the livestock as Such a program would involve shipping many a trainload of feedstuffs out of Texas and other more favored States which have grown a into the drouth Would it not be simpler and more economical to ship the cattle to the place where the feed IN working out as the Governor has Kansas farmers and businessmen should consider the advisability of sending the animals to Texas ranges for They have assurance from Ralph H. Harris of San spokesman for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers that Texas now has grass for several million extra head of range He has stated that the area southwest of the T. P. Railroad alone could graze all the cattle in the Probably the rest of Texas easily could pasture all livestock in addition to its Mr. Harris estimated that Texas could support 50 per cent more cattle than it has That would take care of about 3% lion It would be a pity to let all that grass go to waste while cattle in the drouth regions It would be even worse to slaughter the animals and risk a grave shortage of beef and dairy products next when Texas grass might save FORMAL ORGANIZATION of the Conservation District 30 East Texas promises another long step toward the goal harnessing Texas flood waters and putting them to Like the Nueces and the Valley the East Texas group is concerned with developing an entire basin according to a unified The question is specifically covered by the Patton Congress passed last recting the War Department to survey and map the watershed for and S its announced purpose the ect will cover somewhat more than its It will combat drouth and As residents in that region still pay toll to the eradication of that ill will be the first Getting rid of the quito is consistent with The plans call for checking the runoff after a rain and storing excess moisture in the instead of in marshes and stagnant ence has is sible to have sanctuaries for fowl without a mosquito several million acres of once fertile farmland there was re- to submarginal status by the topsoil washing East Texas farmers will know how to the phase of the new Reforestation is tally that is the pine woods where yield speedier returns to the than almost anywhere IN F. 0.'S CIVIL Roosevelt Move Only Eiv trenches Politically pointed Postmasters CONGRESS KEY Competitive sible as Long Senators Hold Veto Power By DAVID 1936, San Antonio Aug. about a fortnight an executive order came from the Whtle supposedly putting all under the and it was hailed and wide as a in th right But unfortunately it now turns out that the order really means the entrenchment of appointed postmasters and does not call for the application oC civil service reform of a permanent The United States Civil Service Commission has Issued a dum in answer to It says in Does 'the new system ly the postoffices under civil will require an act of Con- gress to eliminate the four-year term of office and eliminate the re- of confirmation by the Will this plan actually politics out of the appointment of question is answered under 5. What will be the chances of present postmasters being under the new Will their chances of continuing in of- fice be better than under the old system Will they be given any Rests With Postmaster power of appointment re- mains in the President of the Untied with tion to him by the postmaster ot to non- competitive examination by the Civil Service These questions therefore can be ed only by the postmaster except that the order does not give any preference to incumbent But while the order may not give any it. goes without ng that an incumbent postmaster will be a candidate for and he can be reappointed for another four-year term without having to compete with anybody else in an The Continued on Page 3. Column 5. OFFICIALS HELD Charged With Aiding 000 Associated Aug. deputy sheriff arrested two of land's leading business men night on a charge of and in the alleged ment of from the Marble Savings Bank by John J. former Gov. Charles M. Smith is dent the Kamuel A. trustee oC the bank and vice president for the Vermont Marble arrested while playing rop H. treasurer the was taken at his Each was balled in a total involved in six counts con- in the Brownsville Boy Admits Drowning L ad i n Re sac a Confesses After ing Two In n o c e n t Youngsters Held Head Under He Tells After glibly telling conflicting stories resulted in the Jailing of two innocent youngsters a small J. 2-year-old Victoria Heights School boy confessed here Tuesday that he drowned Tommy son Mr. and Mrs. Carl In city resaca at April SO. held his head under the and he drank a the told let him go and he went to the Then T hid his clothes in the brush and went he told investigating of- at the police The who will be charged gave no tive for drowning his other than saying they were ing and Soon after Tommy's body was recovered from the resaca by his grief-stricken the ster now came forward and told officers he saw the boy in swimming with two other also told officers these boys had Tommy's shoes and and subsequent information proved this to be The two vigorously denied having been in swimming with Tommy and declared that they had found the shoes belt hidden under brush of the banks ot the The youngster now held continued to weave circumstantial e n c e about the two boys until officers caught him In several contradictory Reporter Learns of ment Despite Guards Who Profess Kansas City Demo c r a t i c Machine Works ly For MONTERREY CIVICA ORDERED DISSOLVED Associated here today said Gov. Guerrero Nuevo Mayor mayor of Monterrey to dissolve the Accion and Los Gold The of the Rightist the advices was dered on grounds pf the tions were spreading propaganda to incite the people against the Communists of the Mexico resort city engaged members of the organization in a. fight last Three killed and eral founded and about 500 bers of the group Weather Man Sez San Antonio and weather Generally fair Wednesday and Gentle to moderate winds on the Hourly Temperature San Aug. 3-4, 1938. 8p.m.....----. 81 8a.m.......... 74 9a.m.......... 77 10p.m.......... 78 11 12Midnlght.... 77 76 1 2a.m.......... 75 2 90 3a.m.......... 74 3p.m..........'92 4a.m.......... 73 4 93 5p.m..........82 6 73 6p.m.......... 7a.m.......... 73 7p.m.......... 90 Associated Aug. Rocketed nto an opening lead by the force of the powerful Tom J. Pendergast Democratic Maj. Lloyd C. rural Missouri ran away from William militant farm in first returns of their the Missouri Democratic gubernatorial nomination Complete unofficial returns from more than a fourth of the State's precincts gave a rural Hirth pegged his campaign to a. militant attack on what he termed ot the party had In where the forces on in Ihe absence of their ill in New the farm leader virtually was out of the first 161 precincts reported in that city gave Hirth a scant 433 Stark took 66.187 votes in the same pre- The voters gave for- mer Attorney General Jesse W. Barrett a sizeable lead in his bid for the party's gubernatorial Barrett virtually dis- regarded his opposition during the campaign to Join Hirth in his Returns from of the State's precincts gave nearest L. Lambert of Kansas City had Continued on Page 3{ Column 4. Associated Aug. Federal prisoner's slight nod to a query was the only indication that sentenced In St. Paul in the Hamm kidnaping was aboard a railway prison which stopped In Denver lot n few minutes tonight while en route to Alcatraz Island prison in The attached to a train which arrived in Denver about p. m. mure than five hours held 19 but the half dozen prison guards that swarmed out of the vestibules as the train slowed to a. sLop were silent on questions regarding pis and Thomas Robinson In the Stoll kidnaping case at don't even know was the reply one guard made when if the men were Guard Docs His Although neither Karpis nor Robinson was among the men visible in the a re- porter asked one of the prisoners at an open window if the two were He nodded his heal in the affirmative in a very brief moment before a guard rushed up and forced the reporter tn move do any talking and that window will be closed for the rest of the the guard told the The train to which the prison car was attached was due in Denver at p. hut due to a out on the Union tracks east of here wa's rerouted over ver Rio Grande n tracks through Colorado While guards were silent on the destination of the men said the car had routed to San Alcatraz prison island is just outside The trainmen said the was picked up last night at Kan. In to the half dozen Federal prison guards who trolled the railroad station form alongside the coach while it was stopped four special agents of the Union road at the car CHAUTAUQUA SKUNK STOPS LEAVES Associated N. Aug. An audience of persons in the huge open air auditorium here gasped tonight when a skunk walked on the stage where George was in the middle ot a For a moment the squirmed uneasily and Britton stopped Then he broke Into another song called Got Plenty of The skunk turned around and scurried for the Market Bearish While culture Department Talks POLITICS DENIED President Says Inspection Trip Will Be On Partisan QUARREL FATAL Associated Aug. cafe which ended ir a fight last proved fatal today to Charlie Nugent 43, farmer of White Physicians said his death was caused by a blow on the County Attorney Frank Murray charges would be against the cafe Associated Aug. and cooler weather smashed grain prices downward but brought no measurable aid to the farm withering corn Corn fell back 4 cents to end a week of advances which had added more than 20 cents to the value of a September closing at li maximum loss was 3 Vi eggs and potato futures dropped from six-year peak levels under heavy profit The rain ranged from a trace to a inch in similar quantities in adjacent was too scattered and too light generally to affect the corn which Meteorologist C. D. Reed at Des reported beyond for more rain in the North Central area were central station forecasters but the cooler temperatures were expected to The Influx of cattle which led to inauguration of the Federal purchasing program at several Midwest stockyards abated today and runs were approximately Spanish Government Claims Victory in IN Edward G. Seubert of ard Oil Among Those Involved In Continued on Page 3. Column 2. Suspension From American Federation to Follow Un- less They New Training Methods Permit Aerial Bombers to Test Aim Without Using Costly Explosives Aug. 4. New method's of aerial enabling them to flood night targets with light and test their marksmanship without using costly explosives or even the were announced today by the Army Air the new systems been evolved the group at March Calif. Titled chair and they expected to cut the cost of. intensive training and boost the number of In Clare the Air Corps Information plane soars along at feet laden 300-pound bombs that in place of high Another ing load ol parachute flares flies at or soaring over the target a few seconds of the bomber and a flare with careful allowance fbr speed wind the plane the course toward the 'the 1936. by Associated American Federation of Labor's ex- council was said in usually well-informed quarters tonight to have decided informally to give John L. president of the United Mine and his lies 30 more days tn come to they took lhat it was the 30 unions affiliated with committee for trial organization would be pended Barring a change of mind over- night by a majority of the it was said William A. F. of L. would announce this decision probably before The terms the council would pose to the Lewis it was would Include dissolution ot the Committee for Industrial set up last fall with the avowed purpose of bringing all the workers in each big industry into one big Nearly ail the council members represent craft They con- tend that there Is a place in the federation for industrial unions but that highly skilled workers should belong to the union of their whether they work In a small-town auto repaff shop or a huge steel The activities of the Lewis com- about one- third of the led John P. president of the metal trades de- to file charges of and 13 unions whose officers are com- The council started its trial of Continued on Page 1, Column 6. bathes the target in light than After releasing his bombs t he may his manship minor explosions of the powder To save the cost of live approximately training method has been worked When the target appears at the proper spot in his the instead of dropping a real simply presses a key which flashes a radio A lens in top of a portable containing two-way radio ratus projects the image of the j bomber on a chart on the scorer traces the path of the plane records the hits and misses by tlm In the pilot sits on an elevation ing a miniature range a small strip ot terrain painted on canvas mounted on an endless sees below him When a designated object tb into range on he which ically relays a signal to the Next Sunday Second Report i Roosevelt vs. La n Third Party Strength Associated ing of on 23 of the country's major oil companies and 61 others named In an indictment charging violation of the Sherman law through ing was started today as the latest step Into a government inquiry Into alleged illegal practices in the Among the first warrants Issued were nine for the of inent Chicagoans Including ward G. president Standard Oil Henry M. president of the Pure Oil Keith petroleum editor of the Chicago Journal nf Commerce and Bryan S. Chicago executive of Oil Federal prosecutors operating with authorities here who directed the Investigation re- In the formal charges of conspiracy to manipulate the price of gasoline to independent jobbers In 10 Midwest said bonds of each would be S. District Attorney John Boyle that plans for the of the total of 84 ants in this phase of the would await completion of the full Inquiry hy the Federal grand now in recess until Aug. 1 Several months will be required to prepare for the which will lie held added He said that while Ihe defendants would be allowed to post bonds In the Federal court districts where they they would be brought here for formal All of the were named In a single true made public last in addition to the oil con- they Include 5S individuals who are executives of the com- panies and three trade The Indictment was based on the grand jury's finding that the major oil companies operated pools In and fields to purchase gasoline from independent refiners at prices which were maintained as open market It charged price raising and price fixing were achieved by ing gasoline to independent bers on long term supply contracts at n determined prices published In the trade which were the prices allegedly fixed in the buying Independent jobbers claimed these prices were ton high to allow a margin of profit that would enable them to compete nnd complaint was made to ington authorities some months ago hy the National Oil Marketers Executives of the oil firm's declined to comment on the At tlie statement that whole matter has been re- ferred to our There is no comment to was the response to all PLANS FOR The sole responsibility for dec- orations in Westminster along processional of tion ceremonies of King ward VIII rests upon the ders 6f Grey Wornum architect appointed by minster Burning Woods Set Aflame By Shellfire Hampers Both Band Seeking Relief Met By State Police at Illinois Associated 111.. Aug. An ananymous threat to bomb the Illinois capitol brought 100 state policemen to the doors of the state house today to stop a band j of on the of the Capitol buildings and grounds were under heavy as the marchers arrived to make six de- mands for increased ment relief at opening of a cial session of the general The house doors were red to all except employes and others who prove they had definite business to All the except 10 spokesmen chosen to voice their were turned At the executive eight blocks eight troopers in- stead ot the customary two guarded Gov. Henry who received the Leaders of the marchers dis- i claimed responsibility for the which said an would be thrown Into the Associated Aug. Spanish Government ran up a of tory tonight in a terrific battle at Alto De Leon Pass in the rama Mountain stronghold ing Gen. who led the of- fensive along the entire front in what many believe may he the de- thrust in Spain's bloody civil was backed with an army of A under Gen. after recapturing San Rafael in an artillery and infantry action which was reported to have left the little township little more than a pile of succeeded In ating the rebel garrison holding Alto De Rebels were unaware of his proach on the northern fringe of the mountain range and stormed down Madrid side of the pasa to raid Gen. ters in the town of Bullets from rebel gruns were said actually to have penetrated Gen. cottage While the general was a bullet smashed Their attack the rebels withdrew to find had cut off their Combined loyalist forces were confident of annihilating the els in an enclosing operation which raged on the woods set aflame by shellfire hampered movements of both While the critical engagement was fought In the throughout most of Spain sands of troops were against cities where revolt started IS days Loyalists forced the fighting In Continued on Page 2. Column 1. of nine prominent in an indictment returned at by a Federal grand jury Investigating alleged price-fixing In the oil industry rendered here late today were released in bonds of H. McElroy tank sales manager of the Pure Oil surrendered U. S. Marshal liam H. McDonnell and was ar- immediately before U. S. Commissioner K. who set a tentatively for Aug. 14. lie was followed by Bernard L. vice president charge Continued on Pace 3, Column 2. HONEYMOON PLANE 1 HURT Bridegroom Bruised When Ship Hits N. Aug. honeymoon of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Nelson ot Los was marred today by the crash of their new passenger plane as they were taking off from the landing field The tail of the plane went into the Pequannock River but the chine bounded up on the struck a and came to a etop about 25 yards from the 150-year- McDavitt Nelson suffered a slight shoulder but Mrs. Nelson and their Charles A. an architect of were not operates a school In His wife and also are Continued on Page 3, Column 2, LIGHTNING KILLS 9 Associated Aug. 4. Nine persons were by today In this vicinity during a storm which such an electrical display as to spread terror among the Most of the victims were ers struck down in the HITLER TO HALT TRADEWITH U. S. New Decree to Forbid Use of Registered Marks Associated Aug. cles were informed today the will issue a decree re- garded as a final step In German-American in reprisal for American retaliatory duties on German The new decree will forbid the use of registered marks In payment for German Heretofore payments in tered marks have been permissible for certain classes oC such as toys and The Nazi government also has taken exception to requirements in America that German shippers de- clare what government subsidy they The use of so-called marks and barter in American trade was banned Since 50 cent or more of trade between the and has been In 25 per cent by bailer and the remainder in registered marks and some the new decree 1s expected to wipe out trade betwen the two Increasing Russian Production Threatens NewDeal House of Cards Based on With Collapse By The other day the Federal Re- serve Board issued a study on the sources of the gold that has been coming into the United It reached the conclusion that the gold and the American securities which were being bought by for- eigners from the proceeds of the sale of this gold were part of the permanent investment ot for- eign The carefully avoided any reference to the fact that the Treasury policy of buying all gold offered at the rale of an ounce was the real reason for the influx of And also it said nothing about how the gold was being fed to I have received a letter from a gold mining expert of standing which throws a new light on our gold and also on the capacity of the world to produce The value of gold as a money metal rests in its If gold could be produced aa freely cheaply as it would not be a satisfactory money For Its value rapidly fluctuate hence prices would be The bulk of gold would make It inconvenient as purse would need to be on If sold is only artificially as diamonds are artificially present position of gold depends upon the price and Great control of mining and may he upset at any time by the new Russian To quote from the Things They gold rare we are led to bellev or if It readily Is found in many parts of the but the commonly called the in the Transvaal province is tne world's most productive gold Gold was found 50 years ago and over have been Ten million dred and fifty thousand weer produced In 19JS. 37 per cent of the world's around Irkutsk In Continued Page Column 1,
