San Antonio Express (Newspaper) - August 23, 1938, San Antonio, Texas WEATHER FORECAST Sin Tair light to and to moderate on Home Newspaper f Of This City and Region VOL 235 SAN ANTONIO TEXAS TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 23 PAGES 5 1865 gAN ANTONIO and other citizens last month ered similar groups from neighbor communities in Marble Falls to celebrate the completion ot the pavement on State Highway No 66 all the from this city to Lampasas That was indeed an occasion for public so far az the pavement has been ried No 66 is one of Texas best highways It is planned and built for speed with smooth surfacing no sharp curves and few grade crossings or other serious hazards Certainly that road has made the communities it directly serves better it has brought them closer together in Besides No befits the American Legion rial Highway is planned for it was the first to be laid out with a view to showing the scenery to the best advantage As far as it follows the crest of ridges so that the passing traveler may see far across the landscape ROUTE originally was planned as a tourist trail but it was designed to sell Texas to the homeseeker Those lend special significance to the civic gathering in Lampasas this afternoon That city's ber of Commerce has invited com- along the the way from Wichita Falls to join in organizing a new State Highway No 66 Association San Antonio and the other inter- ested cities should be largely resented at the meeting and port its objectives Lampasas purpose which concerns San An- tonio even more is to persuade the State Highway authorities to expedite work on No 66 and thus finish the job as early as a S the original sponsors when they urged the of- to designate and survey the route Texas needs that road The need is greater today than when the plan was conceived some ten years ago As tourist in this direction shall increase in re- sponse to the San Antonio city advertising and perhaps a Texas State advertising campaign as the need will become even more urgent The early nents foresaw that No 66 would become one of the most popular tourist trails across Texas It passes through some of Texas loveliest scenery rolling clad hills clear streams and little Jakes pleasant fishing hunting grounds THANKS to the which the INQUIRERS TOLD Communist Party Extends Its Influence and trines Into Army Churches And Parties Probers Hear Ausr 22 J B Matthews a leader ot the Communist the State's official landscape division the committees the American Legion and patriotic groups and the Federal have accomplished the road is one of tho most attractive to be seen anywhere so far as the paving goes Baby parks and historic markers arc numerous and larger playgrounds lie along the San Antonio and the Lower Rio Grande Valley invite the ist Today No 66 is paved south from this city to the Lower Rio Grande Valley and north to It also is paved from Wichita Falls to Mineral Wells The present obstacle to tourist travel and the general fulness is the gap be- tween Lampasas and Mineral Wells That includes the ed but unimproved link between the city and Tille Today's conference less will set in motion civic chinery which speedily should re- move that obstacle COUNTY Fair tion has invited all its Central South Texas neighbors to take part in a two-day celebration marking the opening of its new park home Finishing touches lately were put on one of the best grandstands and rodeo arenas in the State or anywhere At the name time the entire park shaded by native pecan trees has been improved with roads parkways floodlights and water system A parade this morning will open the celebration Fifty floats and 200 riders will give the visitors a of pioneer Texas Rodeo band concerts a ball public ing and ceremonies will afford the new plant a memorable opening Senator Tom Connally will be the dedication speaker and bands entertainers nnd civic spokesmen from Mason's neighbor Brady Fredericksburg Llano and Menard will contribute to the program All South and West Texas join in wishing Mason County Fair continuing success former told the House Committee on un-American Activities today that the Communist party's policy of quietly boring from within had extended its Influence and trines into the regular political parties the churches the army and even tho studios of wood Communists he was closely associated at one mado these boasts to him ho That In the event of war they were confident they could create mutinous situation in the army To Shipping That Hurry Bridges West Coast leader could be relied upon to paralyze shipping at Pacific ports And that party members strategically situated could sabotage tho production oC munitions These activities were to be un- however only It ft war were on against Communist Bia or a conflict in which the Communists disapproved American objectives he said Of principal importance in the movement to bore from Matthews reiterated were front secretly formed and controlled by Communists which numerous prominent Americans had been Induced to Join and sist by the use of their famous names Preachers in quoted Earl Browder head of the Communist Party In ca as having said the movement had preachers In churches who are members oC the nist party Ho testified too that tions such as tho Methodist ation for Social Service ed by tho Methodist Church and the Church League for Industrial Democracy represented another link with the churches ho Almost everybody In Hollywood has been signed up for one of these united front organizations except Mickey Mouse and Snow about Charlie put in Representative Starnes Dem Alabama Most Complete Illusion They have so many Charlie ot their own that they have no need for a wooden thn witness replied Matthews tall and emphatic In his manner of told the committee that i after many years In the Socialist party he became an organizer for tho united front He left he said after many disagreements with Continued on Page 2 Column 5 Blind Girl Wins ENGLAND FRANCE FEAR DICTATORS Franco Scraps Troop Plan Italy Ignores Charge of Supplying to Spanish gents Competing against thousands of children who can see blind Martha Jane Stainton above Chicago girl won first prize in the Illinois state elementary school essay contest She wrote her essay The with the Braille writing device she is shown using here and then transcribed it on a typewriter Subway Train Crash Causes Panic 2 Dead N YORK Aug 22 men were killed and 49 sons injured today when a train smashed into the rear of another train on the Upper East Side of Manhattan An instant tho heavy im- pact which smashed the coach Indows and extinguished all lights panic loose 25 feet underground Hundreds of men women and children screamed and were pled underfoot caught for several minutes behind the pneumatically locked doors of tho two trains The two killed were the man of the second train and a senger standing beside him Their ear was telescoped five feet Into the rear car of the train ahead It was the worst New York subway crash since 1928 when 17 7 Ausr 22 Britain and France tonight were apprehensive that Europe's dictators were commencing a con- diplomatic harassment of the democracies Reliable observers put this In- new from the axis on two j 1 Insurgent Generalissimo Cisco Franco's virtual scrapping oC the committee plan for petting foreign out of Spain 2 Italy's diplomatic refusal either to affirm or deny charges that further supplies have gone to the Spanish Insurgents Considered with worries over Germany's mobilization maneuvers the I deadlocked Sudeten German Issue In Czechoslovakia and i lent anti-British and anti-French pren campaigns the developments seemed to squelch hopes early agreements with Italy and Germany They made prospects oC eventual operation oC the Anglo-Italian Easter pact even more remote and brought Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain face to face with these gloomy To seek further compromise to satisfy General Franco with little hope of getting France or Russia to aeree To Hear From Eden Or to knock the bottom out of his foreign policy by abandoning the Anglo-Italian pact which is not to become j until settlement of the Spanish Avar has been reached In either case the prime ter bound to hear supporters oC former foreign ister Anthony Eden whose nation followed disagreement on the policy regarding the tarian elates Also there ii the question of conservative ments throughout The country within a few weeks of the party's annual conference Try Mediation Some quarters suggested the In JAPANESE TRY DESPERATELY TO Frances Drake nette screen actress smilingly declined to confirm or deny reports she is engaged to Cecil J A Howard son of the countess of Suffolk I have a good many business affairs to clean up before I can think of she Acme prime minister faced svith non- intervention deadlock might stage a fresh mediation attempt de- signed to end the Spanish war by agreement between two com- Independently of their foreign backers He could thus claim a ment In Spain and perhaps Big Seaplane Continued on Pago 2 Column 6 Continue On Page 2 Column 7 CAMERA TO SNAP THIEF IS SNAPPED UP RALEIGH N C Aug 22 The State Department ot tion thought somebody was ing its stamps So Kaleigh cers last night rigged up a camera and flash bulb outfit and ed it with the department's vault to get an action picture of the theft This morning more stamps were missing Gone as well was the camera BODY OF FOUND IN COLORADO SAN SABA TCX 22 The decomposed body of a child believed to be about four old was pulled out of tho Colorado near Mercury today on a trot line which had been In the stream since the recent flood The body was fished out by R Xj 18 on his father's place according to reports received here Sheriff Will H Doran went to the place to investigate Court Told of High Handed Seizure Banks By Gangsters N EW YORK Aug 22 methods employed by Dutch I miles top speed 240 miles Weighs 30 Tons CAN DIEGO Calif AUK 22 A huge plane designed for long-range navy patrol bombing service was put through final tests today by the builders Tests of the craft estimated to weigh 30 tons consisted of flights over the city with landings and on Bay the big craft tho navy will one ot the world's most powerful flying machines While no official specifications have been made public expert observers made the following En- gines 1.050 horsepower each wing span over-all 115 feet range I drives designed Strike Fiercely in Effort to Get Delayed Drive ward Under Way Again Aug 22 ly following up severe aerial and naval bombardments Infantrymen struck fiercely throughout the Yangtze River tor today In a desperate attempt to break the long deadlock which has delayed the Japanese drive Hankow Chinese Li capital invaders particularly aimed at smashing Chinese lines to open pathways to Nanchang Province capital 100 miles south of present Yangtze River base lor the Japanese operations is about 135 miles stream from Hankow To Go Around Lake To get at Nanchang the nese launched a over- land drive on which they plan to go south and west around Lake Poyang which lies south and slightly east of and proceed up to Nanchang on the southwest corner of the lake The final drive Is expected to be timed with a simultaneous drive southward to Nanchang along the railway from While Japanese forces on both banks of the Yangtze attempted to advance up the river under the fire ofi warships with severe ing around Red Lake 20 miles west of a Japanese col- umn newly landed on eastern about 50 miles southeast of Tho Chinese admitted Japanese succeeded in landing near Matsun and that Chinese lines had been forced back toward In attacking the In- vaders on the first lap of their movement Towns and cities to be attacked in- cluded site of the world-famous Imperial Potteries looping Yukan and sien On this roundabout path the Japanese will be forced to fight against Chinese in strong defense positions on the Chang and Loan rivers flowing into Poyang from the enst and the River entering the lake from the southeast On the ShansI front about 300 miles to tho north nese columns were engaged in Like If pretty Edyth McDonald above had been named ette MacDonald the confusion would be complete The ple Tex girl a senior at Baylor University regularly is mistaken for the movie songbird What do you think? Daladier Rides Roughly Over Opposition RELEASING FUND Officeholders Road And Bridge Funds Get All They Want After Opinion By Attorney General EXAR County Court will paw n final Bet Wednesday at 9 a m a public hearing upon 39 expenditures and the between County Judge Er- Auditor Edgar Garvey elected officeholders and commissioners will come to A happy ending with all satisfied The elected officeholders will nappy because they will not any deductions In their re- quested allocation Judge pe will be happy because his posal to increase the of juvenile department employes will pass Garvey Is happy bt cause battle is over and the are joyful because the road and bridge fund will not the amount Amid It all the watchful of the commissioners court has seen to it that the taxpayers re- Continued en Page 2 Column S ARIS Aug Premier Schultz after he Imposed his rule upon the Independent policy bankers of Harlem with threats of and ing wore described from the witness stand today at the conspiracy trial ot James J Hines veteran Tammany district leader Alexander Pompez a tall erect West Indian negro whose bank was one of those seized by ths Schultz mobsters In 1931 calmly told Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora and a ribbon jury that the Schultz gang cold to his pleas that he needed money when his bank was hit re- fused to help him and In the end defrauded him of profits No They Quit Me Did you Quit the Grimes assistant dis- attorney asked significantly as Pompez led up to his story of the losses Xo They quit said pez nnd then explained that it SIX PERSONS KILLED IN CROSSING CRASH ALTOONA Kan Aug 22 Six persons were killed in x souri Pacific grade crossing 19 dent here today SIRS JAMES her BARBARA LEB 2 HAROLD WILBERT C her two JSABEL WARE ETHEL WARE and R young brother BILLY WARE all of Fall River died several hours after the accident in a happened when his bank was hit tal other five were killed out- Justice Pecora and District At- i torney Thomas E Dewey engaged automobile was struck by in a Passage of words when Dewey remarked during a ence at the bench that the Justice right Their I a Missouri Pacific passenger train i The victims were not immediately i identified Hitler Stages Big Naval Parade for Regent of Hungary IT Germany 22 Hitler showed Admiral Nicholas of Hungary practically all ot Germany's naval today In the longest German naval since the World War Participating were 117 vessels representing almost all the total tonnage of the German navy It was aa 1C were ins tho world Germany once again was a formidable naval power a demonstration calculated to im- press tho regent whose tion the wish to closer within their sphere of influence Climax of the parade was furnished by nation's sub- marines 37 of them more than any other single naval category They ranged from the most ern submarines each mounted with one to frun and equipment to little craft devoid of guns and defenses Apparently the World War practice of veritable submarine cruisers of tons Germany seems persuaded smaller had him for pressing a point of evidence while apparently not rebuking Defense Lloyd Paul Stryker Counsel an hour and weight 30 tons A crew ot 16 it was reported will man the craft on duty flights accommodations aro vided for half that number BOY ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY FRIEND Western Union Messenger Boy in Serious Condition Clyde Davee IT 2411 South Flores Street a Western Union boy jn a serious condition In the Robert B Green Memorial Monday after he was shot In the left hip by Davee tlie was He said he was being shown a rifle by his friend Harper 16 120 Porter Street at a station in the 300 block of South Street where per Is employed Harper told detectives that the rifle a type was kept at the station He said he know it was loaded The bullet in craft are preferable None of the to In the samo assumption I have not rebuked the district He was rushed to the Justice Pecora replied I hospital for emergency treatment I have called the district ney's attention perhaps at times forcibly to certain acts certain statements certain conduct that I thoughts were improper and should not have been indulged In In thn presence of the jury Ko Bad Charged Of course I accept the court's said but I do ask the court this -I ask tho court old World War type of submarines was seen The parade for com- posed of one battleship three ers four cruisers two artillery practice ships 12 de- 12 10 36 mine sweepers the and er craft The Hungarian recent Hitler and top military figures saw the parade from the fast yacht Grille They were followed by a ed carrying Continued on t Column 4 of good faith on behalf of a duly elected public officer that he does on behalf of for the de- fense I retorted Justice Pecora I am not saying anything was done In bad faith but where there Is But the broke In Dewey the district attorney it seemed was In a manner as If he an Interloper In the absolutely no right to say that at all and I resent your saying the justice Weather nesc defenders and again win con- trol of strategic points on the north bank of the Yellow River from which they were driven by floods In June Forecast by Prof Maxwell author of This Week's In the Sunday Express Hourly Temperature Ban Antonio Tex Aug 1938 Continued on 2 8 p 10 p.m 11 12 Midnight 1 90 89 87 84 81 79 77 4 5 tf 7 73 17 8 13 Noon 2 p.m 4 3 p.m TO 81 83 88 80 91 93 34 96 as 93 Loyalists Halt Drives By Insurgents tJ France Aug 22 Smashing Insurgent offensives on thren fronts were beaten back today In bitter1 fighting by en- trenched Spanish government troops Insurgent forces unleashed their attacks at Villalba de los Arcos seven miles north of in Catalonia on the Balaguer front between Balaguer and Tremp about 65 miles north ot and on the front in Southwest Spain at a point south of Puebla de on the border between Toledo and provinces Insurgent attacks wilted under fire of government machine guns At Villalba de Arcos In- attempted to encircle the village Insurgents dominating two sides of Mountain northeast of the village attacked with 30 tanks and nearly 100 airplanes but the defenders held their ground under an of aerial shells On the Balaguer front several Insurgent columns preceded by tanks and 15 warplanes tried to cross the River near the Dam north of Balaguer Government troops advised by scouts that Insurgents were Ing- in the vicinity greeted the advancing columns with a heavy fire from and trench mortars As the Insurgents arrived at the bridgehead preceded by tanks government fighters opened tire with guns crippling two of the Insurgent and forcing the others to retreat Government dispatches slid their Edouard Daladier rode shod over initial opposition to the week in Franco today by a swift government two cabinet ministers who raised objections Daladier said longer working hours were necessary to en national defenses and spur French business But new ot bitter tion by Socialists and Communists arose Against the national de- fense premier's announced tion of scrapping the shorter week now in effect for an mated workers Cabinet Crisis Over Appointment of De as minister of public works and Charles Pomaret as minister of labor Quickly Ironed out the cabinet crisis Their Frossard and Paul re- resigned in against Daladier's broadcast speech to the nation last night It became evident main battle with organized labor was just beginning when tho ex- committee of the ful General Confederation of Labor Issued orders to all subsidiary un- ions to remain vigilant keep cairn and ready for any action 4 PRISONERS DIE Continued on Page 2 Column 4 HUGHES BACK HOME NEW YORK Aug 22 Charles Evans Hughes chief tice of the United States returned from a European vacation today declining to comment on affairs here or abroad After two months in Italy and Switzerland he said he was feeling line and was eager to return to work Warden Thinks Men May Have Been Fighting Among Themselves PHILADELPHIA Aug 22 A physician said tonight four convicts were scalded to death in their cells at the Philadelphia County prison at The four were found lifeless ly today They were placed in punishment cells Friday when more than 600 prisoners refused to cat because of a monotonous diet of hamburger and spaghetti In the absence of an said Dr Morton Crane physician I am of the opinion scalding water somehow into their cells Warden William B Mills said four had been fighting among themselves last night and asserted they were not murdered Judge Harry S McDevIlt of com- mon pleas court who had ed in the hunger strike said he was told the broke steam pipes to serve MI weapons and were scalded in con- sequence Warden Mills offered no nation of why the guards did not attempt to stop the uproar which a police investigator said he ed came from the cell block Intervals during the night Coroner Charles B Hersch serting the men evidently met with violent arranged autopsy for tomorrow The dead were Henry Osborn 22 serving a three-year for James 26 serving 18 months to three for beating a policeman and ening a detective Edward Hayes 46 serving a 10 to term for armed robbery and Joseph Walters a incorrigible Japanese Protest to Moscow Against Closing Consulates AUK 22 strong Japanese protests to Moscow today there had been only slight Improvement in anese relations since the Aug 11 truce ended on the frontier The foreign office disclosed the protests were made against Soviet plane flights over the disputed der and against Russia's sonable attitude in the withdrawal of Japanese consulate from Khabarovsk and Reports to Tokyo newspapers that Russia has increased military aid to Chinese Generalissimo ang and was actively and directing the Chinese defense against Japanese drive on Hankow China's provisional cap- ital likewise contributed to tension between the two The foreign office statement re- ferred to three in which Russian to have flown over last Saturday Domel Japanese news Continued on 2 Column t in a dispatch from Seoul Korea however said authorities there the planes wve en from a base on the southern tip of Siberia to drop supplies to Soviet troops at when they flew over Korean as well choukou territory The Russian In the border area were reported from a of as a result of heavy floods in the area where 400 were feared drowned A report Korea BOO mil from Kauko of lost their and were In that section ln the protet tb two Soviet government to the The Soviet Union had domed consulate at Kobe to the two
