San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - July 2, 1938, San Antonio, Texas ModemU south Recovery Party Lowers Broken Form Down Cliff To Base of Peak Taken to City TWO AGO the Valley received congratulations irom n e i b b r communities and from the country upon having attained a place on the ocean Since Port ville were opened early in 1936 the Texas that re- traffic has in- creased steadily It has shipped many a cargo of grapefruit and Oranges barreled and other processed foodstuffs cotton and cottonseed cake some corn to both the Atlantic Seaboard and Old World ports That trade is only beginning steadily through years to come For the first the advantage of transportation and water Lower Bio Grande ley found on a parity with California and and Thirteen Flying Fortresses 78 Smaller Bombers and Seven Attack Ships Will Be Added to July 1 The army a order today fighting planes took occasion to proclaim that the United States is superior to the rest ot the world tary aircraft The pianos ordered included 13 dying fortresses such flew in February to Buenos Aires and re- turn 78 smaller bombers and seven streamlined attack planes Louis lohnson assistant i tary of asserted that the in the a huge bomber is definite proof America still maintains Its position ot leadership in aeronautical design Others Spend More This was true he added despite the fact that other nations are spending many times the amount money available in this country for that purpose The planes are tho first to be purchased out of the Congress gave the Air Corps to buy aircraft in the new fiscal year About 700 new craft on order The army has some first line planes in service now and ex- to reach its goal of the moat modern types two years hence officials said The 13 flying resses were ordered from the ing Aircraft Company Seattle which or constructing 40 others The 13 will cost markets and also overseas long ing and many months neering the Lower Kio Grande Valley is dedicating an- other seaport This week a regatta and barge loaded with aluminum plates for a dairy plant broke m the new nine-foot channel between Port Isabel and That suitable for barge traffic will mark the westernmost link in the Intracoastal Canal already authorized as far as Corpus and certain mately to be extended to Port Isabel that import of the new waterway which meanwhile will meet the heavy transportation needs of a growing S E Holland pioneer in and president of the Association the canal along with Col F Wilby New Orleans and Lt Col F: S Besson ting the Army Engineers attended the ceremonies Mr Holland expressed the the Lower Rio Grande Valley's Oil prospects alone would justify ex- tending the Intracoastal Canal into that region Several spokesmen for the Army Engineers and other authorities both engineers and trade experts pronounced that waterway enterprise It will draw upon a far-stretched highly productive coastal plain that with the Valley and program consummated easily could support an million people It surely will be fed by largely untapped oil and other mineral resources and also is likely to serve a considerable tion of Mexico Thus the canal largely will create its own tonnage It will be opened some day and meanwhile a safe prediction is that Order Ships Largest of the contracts was a -one with the Douglas Aircraft Company Santa Monica Calif for bombers A third order seven Vultee attack planes of model Expected to travel more than 230 miles an hour this type of craft carries three men one of whom mans a downward through floor It is made by the Aviation Manufacturing Cor- Downey Calif w Alter Old Illustrating the advances made iri bombers fortress at- tains a speed of moro than 250 Continued on Page 2 Column 2 PACTWH_ Treaty Strengthens French In East and Ends Controversy PARTS July 1 and Turkey clasped hands today In a good neighbor pact concentrated In the sanjak district of Two laughing alikes are Simeon son of King Boris and Queen Joanna of garia and hen to the throne arid his sister Luisa This picture was made in the grounds royal palace in Sofia on the prince's birthday His sister is 5 years old IRC Wi the Isabel link might change the ther will demonstrate the complexion of any new Eu- utility Always Passive wa and continually growing deserves to become Texas fif CROPS nent pastures move atock will solve Texas farmers problems raised by failure of the export cotton market Holding that opinion most of the Kaufman County have un- a campaign which 5s getting the desired results It began last year with tho ber of Commerce ment contest The result is that several hundred farmers are ing out underbrush and seeding tracts with permanent grass With fairly abundant feed crops already being grown to supplement the pasturage and ample fertile land at hand on which to produce added as needed the sponsors of that movement see the county Increasing its agricultural income by raising more and better LACKING sufficient roads to assure the dairy farmer the outlet to market he would need every day in the year Kaufman is turning its attention mainly to beef cattle It appears that trood roads are as dairying as to farming or maintenance of consolidated schools Needless to add expects to get its in time The supply the farm family with a good living and pork chickens eggs beef green vegetables Evidently the pleaders believe in sion workers doctrine that the farmer's best market own v In addition to this treaty of friendship which France will seek to broaden into a pact by negotiations with Syria a tary agreement was reached by which France and Continued on Page 2 Column 3 CEDILLO LEADER REPORTED KILLED July 1 In war ministry circles said today a force of led by Insurgent General Saturnine Cedilla skirmished yesterday with ment troops in the Cino Palos Mountains of San Luis Gumersindo Cura one of the leader's of agrarians who started an abortive 20 was said to have been killed Codillo was said to have escaped with five of his men were reported captured Suspect Held In Slaying of Frome Women SPRINGS Colo July 1 Federal reau ot investigation and officers of two states sought Tonight to learn if Norman Winston Wharton 28 held as the confessed slayer of a hotel detective here had any part in tho Texas desert killing April of Mrs G Frome and her Tho FBI today in Washington D C it had received a package of cartridges cartridge canes and other evidence sent by Police Chief Hugh b Harper of Colorado Springs Chief Harper also sent to eral officers the 765 caliber ish automatic pistol he said was found effects Clip's Lock or Hair i This gun Harper said was the one used In the slaying the near Colorado Springs It corresponds roughly to an ican type 32 caliber pistol Harper said After Harper clipped a lock of hair from head and sent it to the FBI with the gun Cris P of El Paso Texas formed tho chief previous reports of human hairs were found ed in one of Nancy hands were erroneous The FBI announced in ton it was examining the package of and shells sent by Chief Continued on Page 2 4 NEA PLANS TO MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO NEW 1 National Education Association day chose San Francisco for next year's convention but said if there proved inadequate the meeting would be held in cago The board of directors said the executive committee the situation soon as V M Tuly from the foot of Sandia Peak under police escort the of Medill 21 heir to a Chicago publishing fortune rested tonight In nn The final was made late this after and climbers working since dawn to down tho body the Jagged face of the cliff had transferred their burden a waiting ambulance Indians Thanked 30 Indians and beaten forest rangers ambulance heads bert step-father of the youth said and I thank you from bottom of our hearts Simms had watched thc grim funeral for more than half an hour as it over the separating the waiting hearse from en- trance to Canyon Del Aqua on whose steep sides the body was As the Indiana and foresters cam of wa- ter were heard from tho party some of whom had had nothing to eat or drink since the day be- fore when the body was found Help Sent Out Men immediately Rent to meet the procession and help bring the lashed to a stretcher the remaining distance The painful Journey the closo of an Intensive eight-day search that started Juno 23 when he disappeared on a mountain climbing expedition with Richard Princeton student and son of a late wealthy Albuquerque lumberman Full on Opposite Sides Both boys apparently fell from Sandia Peak side and the other body was found ago today broken on west cliff Late a party of Indians located body high on northeast face Continued on Page a saw leaving this gap which is almost 30 feet deep Barbara Has Count Arraigned n London Court on ION Danish Count Curt arraigned in Bow Street police threatening wealthy Barbara that she T T Walker editor of School Taxis Ordered Stopped While Union Appeals to Federal Court NEW ORLEANS July 1 Tho Committee Of Industrial called strike the Yellow Taxicab Company today after appealing to federal court for protection against police inter- ference Only hours before izer J cab out on- grounds this j al management to negotiate and Community published at ln V Mo was elected a her of the board ot trustees and Fred Cram of Iowa State at Cedar Rapids was elected to the executive committee TWO NEW SUNSPOTS CROSS SOLAR SURFACE JOSE Calif July 1 Dr Albert J Newlin director of the Memorial Observatory at Santa Clara University reported today two new group were crossing the solar surface Dr Newlin said each was about and miles in length Ho said they were across equator He predicted they cause long wave radio interference and aurora Blue and Forget In Final at Pa July 1 S District Court John Grouch ing police his armed thugs kidnaped CIO them and ushered them from town with death threats The CIO seeks an injunction to from terrorizing and intimidating its men ments next Tuesday Tho attorney representing the city at today's federal hearing charged the CIO wanted to stop Mayor Robert S Maestri f adr ministering city government and prevent the from ing lawlessness John Brophy national CIO di- rector had a at the hearing The CIO injunction petition charged Grosch acted -on direct orders of Mayor Maestri Norman Thomas head said in Continued on Page 2 4 life freed under sterling bail and for Tuesday His defense will bo denial Before tho count satisfied that he was not carrying a gun and he ised to from the and not with her May End In The litigation expected to end in separation divorce of nobleman and the blonde heiress to worth They were ried May in the after divorce from the late Alexis The day remaining locked within her Regent's with the couple's two-year-old son about whom centered They differed on questions re- garding hia bringing up The child yesterday was made ward of the chancery court at the request of the countess out of Page 2 Column 6 ranked our as compared with those lav ranked vour overcome by the armies in blue and grey who fought on this historic battlefield Just 73 years ago Inheriting from the the and the courage so manifest their tho Secretary said we may rely on our ability and that descendants tb go forward new With him on by a canopy from- a rain were lowers of both Meade and Lee who have returned to the scene many of comrades May we be an example peoples ot- the Dr LOB mander of the Grand Let plead confidence and peace men John u National commander ot Confederate Vote r a n s turned to Mennet I brother ho we -are members of wtnie AmericanUm and United Marine Band Gem of and f or To gathered the author Sunday Hourly June 1 F D Announces Schedule of Primary Talks H PARK N Y July 1 Roosevelt announced Group Trapped Underground fay Collapse Of Rock V Xia Rescue won a race with time tonight for the liven ot 000 Praco coal the collapse a wall and brought them to the Five others were dead either suffocated while hoped was rescue details for his coming ern trip Including scheduled jor addresses in Ohio Kentucky and Leaving Washington July 7 tho President will speak July S at the Northwest Territory celebration at Marietta O and at Latonia race track In Ky on July 9 make at the fair grounds In Oklahoma City He also will make appearances at Amarillo Tex San Francisco Los Angeles and Calif and all four WHI Review Fleet Roosevelt will review the United States fleet at San Francisco July scheduled from the rear platform of his train in- clude Louisville and Bowling Green Ky and Pueblo Colo July 12 A number of other form appearances probably will be made since the President's pre- arranged schedules for trips rarely all stops he actually makes plans will take him into four states where Democratic senators support re-election Marietta address into the UQ One Bullet Strikes Door of Auto Other Goes Through Window and Windshield He Asserts July 1 Federation of Labor American Federation of Labor re- Talking Informally with had taken a sudden turn tor the belter In the last two weeks At the same time It called upon organized labor to continue re- sistance against wage reductions There is still the possibility that some Industry employing a large might cut series of A LBERT WEST JR candidate tor sheriff reported to police headquarters Friday night ill s car bearing two holes and said that he had been fired upon by two men in a bile on San Pedro Avenue near Magnolia Avenue There was a bullet hole in tho left hand door of the car and an- other in the windshield Close to Head Police who examined the car said that the bullet which hit the shield must have passed within inches of West's head They had riot found the bullet which went through the door and feel that it must have come near the legs West was alone in the car West told police he first noticed a car following him when he left a political in the 600 block ot Ruiz Street The car him along Laredo Street to Five Points across Five Points over Laurel Street and on to San Pedro nue West said Two Men In Cork On San Pedro Avenue the lights the following car were dimmed and the car speeded up pulling alongside Just before the car came with his Weet declared ont- of the two men in the car opened fire two shots ringing together The car then speeded passed West's machine arid turned into It then turned off to headed south and West lost It to the fact that he was unarmed West was unable to re- spond to the attack he said Also absence of lights on the car which attacked him made it impossible for him to determine Its license ber The only description he could give was that It was a black bearing two men number of workers wages and start off a wage cuts throughout industry If this happens it would have so strong a deflationary effect as offset the beginnings ment and start business into a me ther decline Also John L Lo-wis the A F rival leadership likewise reiterated opposition to wage re- reported that business newspapermen he elea The CIO stands with President probably will Roosevelt In opposition to 1 cuts in where Senator Robert J Continued From Page 1 Bulkley Is campaigning for an- other term X The three Kentucky 2 Column 8 FRANCE CUTS OF JAPANESE GOODS I The first reached alive i Carl was lured while Elmore and Gurlis Buffering from tely 25 importation of per cent of all purchased In Its monthly survey the A E of L reported that the wage level lifted by good ness conditions In the early months of 1937 had been the In a few instances of actual distress or JAPS SLAUGHTER Air on Port of Swatow Lives of 400 HONGKONG July 2 Saturday reported today that 400 civilians were killed or ed in yesterday's Japanese bombing raid on South China port of Swatow Nine planes rained more bombs city many ing in crowded Of the Chinese said 200 were school children who were leaving their classrooms as a school lew ui among those who j building was struck Other build unjustifiable The upturns but said it to whether the outlook was for permanent or temporary The deep pessimism overcast for the post few months seems to be On Page 2 Column B MAN PLUNGES FROM WINDOW OE HOTEL 1 maritime worker was found early today on the roof cf the Sam ton Hotel He apparently fell or jumped to his death from his room oh the sixth floor hotel HOUSTON July of Wilford B Ings damaged included the pal and a Red Cross headquarters Buildings were destroyed on large scale as powerful sives plowed to earth from heights Population In Panic The devastating attack began at 5 p m and lasted for an hour and a half The population had had some warning for six of the planes had circled over the city for 30 minutes before the first bomb was loosed The objectives according to witnesses appeared to be the or's office military and the power station The attack on a far greater than several previous bombings re- cently created panic as it ued through the 90 terrifying Page 3 Column I He was when gave way died amputated by physicians Others I tendent by 1938 10 11 p.m midnight fl Morgan f I depth of and Tho sudden order which com- quarters said was the most drastic of taken any was re- taliation for to live iip to an into Japan in much or more French as two These sources said the apparent reason Japan's failure to keep of the foreign exchange finance heavy sentence published In listing Quotas September of pf San Antonio Building Permits For June Highest in 3 Years WA r to In San Antonio reached V month of June permits In the city Friday Application during the past the biggest monthly permits for more than work Issued shot ing- past year covering a riod this year tion has been made as compared for the six were applications VM one for the con- of new Kress totaling a cost of und tions A comparative chart for the Continued 1
