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June 09, 1938 Page 1

Port Arthur News (Newspaper) - June 9, 1938, Port Arthur, Texasu. s. PROTESTS JAP RAIDS ON CANTONI id | is* ic I J. C. V * f-Q * 11 *o ham* The Port Arthur News Inside Your News AddiUonnl picture* of Pre** association parley visitor* are carried on page 2. VOL. XXXVII. NO. IM).    ARTHUR.    TEXAS,    THURSDAY,    JUNE    9,    ma.    14    Poges    PRICE    FIVE    CENTS FLORIDA TO RUSH KIDNAPER TO TRIAL O o O O -o p o o o r ---------—    --o o o o o o -o o o o a >  o o o o o o o o o o —o ♦    —- _ Unity Among Texas Press Bodies Urged JnK™ AERIAL ATTACK Q.MEN p|||D BOY’S BODY +> PORT ARTHUR • Greetings, Newspapermen! We’re Glad to Have You Welcome, newspapermen! All Port Arthurans join The News in wishing Tor you a pleasant and profitable convention (And the; greeting go es, too, for the state ( candidates, who if they get any mote numerous arr going to have to wear badges to keen front soli-ciiing one another's votes * EDWARDS ASKS COMMITTEE OF REGION CHIEFS Texas Press Opens Convention Glare Of Advertising Is Stressed In First Session Of State Press Association Closer unification of rrgion- • "Ul srns,‘ °* a]    allied    press    associations d decency no ...    .    '    ,    , I cxas through a central or- r Tragedy of Persecution of Jews Stirs the World Often in recent years especially in recent months human justice aud doubt ha* been stilled by reports of wholesale outrages perpetrated ganization to protect, promote upon the jewish peoples of centra! and develop the interests of Europe.    smaller dailies and weeklies was Reminiscent of barbarism of the made the keynote of the Texns Hark Ages. accounts of these In* Press association convention which tolerable persecutions must appall opener! in the Goodhue hotel this every right-thinking American. re morning with more than 200 dele-gardless of his race or creed, hut gates present. thev me continuing, uncurbed by Presenting the plea foi trotter co protests of democratic govern- operation in his annual message, R, me n t s. 1> is estimated that nearly six J. Edwards of Denton, association president, advocated a change in million Jews hare been driven from ’^r by laws to permit formation of their homes by ruthless oppressors * general f ress executive committee and snipped not only of their prop- composed of presidents from each pity hut of their right to work for a Ii'mg Their money boxes and other holdings tooted, the victims of the v a nous organizations. Not Closely I nilled I feel the relationship of the of this vicious tyirany are denied state association and the five ie even the chance to unit the scene gional associations ate not as urn of then misery’. Enable to seek an* other land even a strange one they rnu-t starve or subsist on the pitiful charity of others only s little less destitute than themselves This tragedy of centi al European Jewry i« being brought honie to Pprt Arthurans tins week by the animal campaign of file American Jewish Joint Distribution commit fled as they should tie foi the hest intel eats of Texas new spapers, ’ h* declared. President Edwards also’ Inti-thimtcd tin* legislative committee will bring in a report ut tire conclusion of tile present convention favoring some new lawn and re-i islons of preset!) one* v bleb may prove belief ieial for new spatters. While he made no specific leg tee to mise funds for the succor tslativc recommendations, one legal phase was emphasized by H. VV. Connell of the Beaumont Enterprise • >f these pathetic peoples these victims of totalitarian madness. Tile erThunittee i* undertaking to raise the comparatively small sum of •' mu- .    . I „r which Pot Aithui s . hic is a modest 12000, The money will go for fool and Journal, a speaker on the mort' tug prog rn in vghp.se subject was "The Classified A nr1' " .Not Defined ‘Nowbde in the Texas statutes fot millions of distraught homeless can tie found definition of families and for removing them, if possible, front the grasp of heartless tyrants. Jew* of America and of this city sip making their appeal fot donations among their immediate people Unflinchingly’ they ate tallying to the summons to help their own. We admire their courageous spit it. hut we know they do need tile help of the test of us, for ihe plight of Ute Jew in Europe has placed a tremendous burden *-n hi-’ brethren throughout tile wot id. The latest population figures reveal that there sie only 13.31 VOOG Jews altogether Thus at least two tint of every five new spa pet Connell asserted "Thnt is one of the major reasons so much legal advertising is placed in ‘throw aways and mushroom socalled legal publications Fot the (Turn to Page 2, ( nliiinn A) When Editor Bites A Dog... By Jack Gould Nisi Staff Writer.) s, note The Perfect Re Editor Jews ate in sote distress, and of potter' the remaining three, of course, not Introduced ss a "combination all are prosperous    Houdini and Einstein," Henry M Yes, our Jewish fiiends need Ramsey, public relations man fot help and they deserve It. How; T>’lei Commercial college, outdid generously have they contributed bis introduction aud amazed dele to Gentile charities' Jewish phil- K*»cs attending the morning aes ant hropisis in this count I y ate Ie- !*"»n by performing memory feats Sion. A t\ pical example of theii thnt startled even the ti adttionally ON UNIVERSITY RRINGS DEMAND Tokyo Officials Told To Stop Fliers’ Assault On Non-Combatants WASHINGTON. June Af’). - Ambassador Joseph tv nt I okyo asked the panrsr government today to kr urgent measures to stop ng of non combattant tv in China The state department said Grew was instructed to appiise tile Japanese foreign off ice of an attack of Japanese planes upon the Un gau univeisity campus yesterday. Miss Residences Grew, the nnrmunrement said, told the Japanese that three bombs were dropped on the edge of the school's athletic field 20*t yards from residences of Americans at the university. There were 37 Americans at the university at the time. HEIDI, HOM It I It" SINK TI! It EE SHIPS New Kpnni.sh insurgent bombardments of British and French mn chsntships in the Mediterranean today plied fuel on smoldering British French resentment, giving impious to a move for an Interna iionnl an tai patrol to curb "pira cy" ft nm the skies Five persons ware killed aboard the French freighter Brisbane outside Dema Spain including an observer for the European non-inter vrntlon committee. Bomb* d in Harbor Ttie Bluish fietghtei Isadora wa* bombed in harbor at Castellon De I .a Plana hut their were no lasualtlrs in that attaek. H|>anish insurgent air raiders bombed a thud met. hamship off Kenicasim neat Castellon De I-a (Turn to Page 12, Column 61 — NVw* sniff Photos. Shooting In every direction In the Goodhue hotel headquarter* ast Bit.IIT I ESTEB (left to rigid): Harbert; Cia nile Wells, Memphis, tho Texas Press association convention opened there today, The News texas, responding to tile address of welcome delivered bv Mayor Bader; number fot instance is our own great-hearted Abr Goldberg who U dedicating his life to mending the hod irs of crippled children and never once asking lf (he beneficial ie« of his labor and bis money arts (Turn to Page 7, Column 2> To Whom Do You Want Big Bridge Edition Mailed? it wont ba long now until TtMfc New* issues its I (t    sd tion in celebration of the opening of the sr; turn ooh Putt Aithur-Oiange bridge Replete with ap piopriate plenties and stories, the lug edition will be an unpin! ant cont I minion to the bridge fete. On its many pages will be graphically recounted the history of the long fight fin the river project. Undoubtedly you will want t send one or mote copies of tin issue to relatives and fi lends in other r ties The News > iii he glad to bai die that ia-k f* I you Th* i#g.i-lai price of a .-'linda . paper is til rents IN *,;• will uiiv tie tween 14 nod it rents a*c<*t(l.ng to ii* tination pint fin 'oui eon reincur* The New* will wisp end mail cop es of the edition to an” address on eat til foi a flat price of 2'* cents. That ice wilt vo\ti everything All you have to do i- telephone the eiieulatmn department (iii and lint the addresses to which you want u paper mailed. There ss no Double ut bother for you, A piloting order on th - edition Y ill tie ’ •'••(! Kinn ('all iii \ our i sci c ion - today' sophisticated fourth estate. 4 ailing bac I. correctly the pool lions of 31 sets of four digits written oil a blackboard us called by ills audience, K .linsey then directed bl* assistant* to fill out de* (glinted squares, thereby s|M>lling out several word*. His pet trick is meeting several hundred persons and then calling out their names "Nothing to it," he insists, "just a matter of attention and coneen trat ion,” Biggest man at the convention is undoubtedly Sam Fore Jr., of Hie Floresville 4 brouil le-.Diurnal, vv bo won't tell bis weight because be lost track of it long ago. lies a past president of the association. One most populat delegate is Den Uhesnutt, publishei of the |x*-ned> Advance amia member »! skiff photographer caught the following notable* with hi* camera I ITEH Id IT; "ain Harhen of Itiehardson, association *e< retarv (left I and N. II fierce of the Menard New*. I Rf EK 1411*111: President It I Edwards, Benton, delivering his annual message. I HT 4 ESTEB dell to right A \ Andrews, Drang* Leader J Willard Biding*, editor of (he ""biff," T4 I , Fort Worth. Mrs Hiding* and Edwards. FOW EH 1.1 IT (left to r .Ii! 4 »>l George feeler, I ay tor: Jack Howerton, 4 Hero, president of the "until Texas Press association. DOW I IC Kit,111' (left to m: bt \\ s bedlam! Nacogdoches 11«-r aid: Pal ll Wed, "s.in Xiii no Paper company, "att \ntonio. In* I t <ik. Mission, I \ Wright, Collierville Tribune, and francis Nog!**. Port Arthur, registrar clerk. DELAYS SESSION Rain Is Forecast Here Filibuster Threatens On Wage-Hour Measure WASHINGTON, June 9 (UP* Mope that congress might complete tit. administration pioginm aid adjourn (hi* week end ha* vanished Senate Majoiity I.* adet* Aibeti W Barkley t.i’.d President Kuos* wit today. He fixed next Tuesday * Wednesday’ a* the rn >st hkrl date for (he end of tile session While his discussion was taking pin * a group of IT southern sen a I he state prison hoard. Delegates i, s -sued an ulumatuni on tin "J Ingle** ii* s a good guy to know y never can (ell! Buddie*, J ack I,. Webster, Ballo* paper luau, and John Newbern, Tyler engraver, admit they (Turn to Page 7, t olumti ti wag*1 hour bill which was experted to et cate another harrier to quick adjournment. The southern group threatened a filibuster unless then demands for full flexibility in wag* stands of the I a bot its inlaid- bill ain met Showers this morning brought only inlet relief front current un comfortable temper atm es. ami i f much change is probable flora mole min expected tonight and Friday. Ii.cal weathermen said today Today* sudden lain dropped the mercury from fc.3 degrees to "4 hut the leading wa* back in the RON by IO a. rn Wednesday the ten pet alure leached RT. TRIP DELAYED Gov. Earle Unable To Come To Texas Now PJRE REFINERY TOWER STARTS RAU JOURNEY ST. LOUIS June 9 (IN. * A st?cl tower, 1*2 fee* high and weighing 241 toil', believed I i be tie largest Mingle piece of inriu»tii-ai equipment < vet built in St Louis It ft bel c tod:    on a q ( i i:    . f< >. Smith’* Bluff Tex ■> The tower tx ti be awd in tile l ire (til t< 'incr\ inc. Th* (owe- }* Iv t-. moved * »t '* lilt e J*. .    .    -■ i ’ tf<y,nh<Vpour,(l chiv with lfi whe* . eech. 1300 AUSTRIAN JEWS GET MEXICAN REFUGE MEXICO CH V, June I* t INS (in* thousand tin*, trundled A -tiian Jews will be granted refuge in Me> leo, tyeeording to an annotine* tnent i*y the ministry of intr* int today. lilt lefugeca aie experted to uri.c -it Vein Cruz shoitly and the g** * rnmcii! wiii allot them lands scattered throtighot.t th*- country i tie-. * it c\pe« ’cd to heroine Mexican citizen* it ■>«* sia*e*J Going To Press —And On Time THURSDAY * IO r rn Dinner dane* at (jnn*G hue bete roof, courtesy of Th* Po*t Arthur Nee**. Beaumont In. teip* se and Beaumont Journal, and Port arthur champer tA eon* "le.Ce w th other infarct**. H*rv* H Haines, toastmaster. FRIDAY 7 30 a n' — Past pr*s>d*ntt' bre x I* f a st , (lest past president id point of service will a* t as chairman Goodhue hotel Young man’* breakfast Jo# T. Coo**, president. Goodhue hotel I 1V a rn Meeting called to or. der by the president "Newspaper MaMe ,p," by M B foe, Madison v ile Meteor. "Circulation Keeping tt Up," by Poy L, Swift, Rob*. town Record Inspirit Oml address, "Bael*tracing or Going ahead," by Wm W Loon* s cf LaGrange, IU , prescient of lh# National editorial as*'- vt on No tv,amess program for tie afternoon .    entire    time g van over to sightsee mg I 'I p. rn — Luncheon st The Tress Company’s terminal and Toe 'rt*ai,o Can company s plant, compliments of The Tests Com. pany .md T*'» Tester, Can com. pan/ M O Pieston, toastmaster. Luncheon jdrtc'ti, r>y James H. P pk-n V st through terminal and can plant. 4 XI p rn Br at r Us furmahtd by lr,si merest* DaUgttc* will board    •* at Tests terminal doc irs at GJO p. rn. 6 OO p rn Sandwich Or bo* tup pe st p,, = e O' company's refm fry or Net net river, compliments of fne Pure OM company P L. Verne, matte- of ceremonies Pe I ,rn »- Pom Arthur b* boats. Princeton Preacher’s Son Admits Writing Note MUM ON CHILD’S DEATH Others Grilled: Money Is Found Near Corpse MIAMI, FU.. J line 0 (UP). air * Attorney A. WOran id today that hr will pr4»-«ent evidence against Franklin Pierce Mel nil to a special gram! Jury ordered to bn impanelled Monday McCall led <"r-mrn last midnight to the body of kbilla ped Jimmy C*«h and to (ha $10,ROO ransom money that was paid tn vain for his *tfe return. While * coroner * jury wu being Impanelled st Homestead, Mo Call wa* placed under heavy g’uard, There were thieats of mob violent a as » result of his confession that he had written three ransom notes and had collected th* ransom money, Other* Are Questioned The suspect wa • held in the federal bureau of investigation headquarter* on the Lith floor of a Miami office building while G-men began questioning additional suspects in an effoit to obtain a complete solution to the * ase Worley accompanied the band of federal agent* when they brought the 12-day mystery of I veal old (Turn to Page 12, 4 olumti It THREE INJURED IN 2 CRASHES Nederland Couple And Local Youth Are Victims Two auto accidents on the Beaumont highway at widely separated points but within the sam# hour, shout lh a. rn , sent three persons to St. Mary's hospital th! • morning’ Victims wrte Mr and Mrs. C. Dom nbo* of Nederland and Harry I.ee Ashton, son of Mr. and Mr*. T. W. Ashton, 45341 Fifth street. Arm I* Broken Doombos suffered a broken Hght sun. His wife vs* reported suffering fiom snoek and bruises. According to the new highway pa* Dolmen assigned to Port Arthur, R. B Hoodlum sod J \V. Black-well, who investigate!, the coupla were ttsveling south on the high-wa / when their car w ,» struck in the rear bv a tm* k traveling in tho same direction and driven by J. C, Brsnnen of Beaumont. The collision wa* about seven mile* north of fort Ar*hut Mm Have "kith I no lure The Ashton youth was reported. to have been struck by a ear about; (hree mile* aouth of Beaumont when be had stopped hi-* own csp and walked around it to tnvestl-ga*e mot*»r trouble At (he hospital it was said ha suffered a possible skull fracture. Weather Report Texas Bright Spot-Oil Is Reason \\, lf?. I ^ J wi Tells Press I axation 'I breakins Shadow f,< H ’ Vt. fX .»t t I « >h thiinder*h'M< l>artiy cloudy mr bittie , henge In t Ha11 Te ,ii x I bunder*)!*! w ere c rioexcept ’ >»» !. I) thy rub Kr day Moder M fly ! iu<!rn I ■    «>!»    Rr'.Jjty I it er.vh'w era, er ii 11 j re tor al n;th p-.r-ijrht Fri« ri'iei-NhOW -M»*l*i,( a the coast. !’ ’ >( tv tonight. I *h*iw*i a. I * CI ut, MARKETS AT A GLANCE N EH \ DBK !* I IX Iv" (The Iii*iH. low and (losing quulution* tor the day are given in their ri‘v|iei tin* order following Hie name til eacft slock). 4 onipliment*    of feiincr tod Beane \lli*'d    "torc* 5',, 5’., 5',; %    T. A I 132 ,, I iii    ,. J (2', ;    \||.iiti.    Bfg 21.    ut'; I t hrysler    41 I! < miso! (Ill x ,, g'(t g <,en Electric 35'*, 3.'!>, 3I:«; 4,en. Motor* lit*. TI, HO; Mont. \4 aril Hli .. HIE, H‘i' *; Murray 4 orp. SE, 5, 5; Nash Iv* Iv inator 7',. 7E, 7',; I'emtev •MIE, Of, Bo"*; Phillip* Pet. UHE, H2, HHE; Pure 4 kl I OE, HE, OE; find in 5E, SE, N' j; Keo Motors (no sal*’*); Itcpublic "(eel IS, 12*-., IS; "eMr* Hoi    Inn k    51'i, 55 K, 51; Md. Brands IE, IE, IE;    "tone    A    Weirder    7E, 7    i,    7 ,;    "tud«diaker 4E. 4. 41»; Texas ( *»rp. HH    HI ,    HH    :; I nit.    Aircraft 27, 2HE, 2«7„; I . S. steel 4S1,, 41    43; W. rtcrn I nlun 21 E, 21 E, 71 El Filles Service X1,, X',, H *,;    Kler.    Bond aud Share TE, 7, I1. Oil H7'37, 37 E J 4 oiled 4.as HE. 3' .    H1 Stiscl.v firm Bonds mixed.    I nib    ii    ghcr Foreign    exch.iug ( Olton steady. "ugar strong    4 <*fic*-    quiei    Wheat    strong .higher. Cattle steady U> weak. Hogs lo hlghei, 4.(Ill *of( ( urn A UST IN', June 9 (UP' (»<>'. .lame* V Allied s office was no fled todsv that Gov. George H E'tle of Pennsylvania will be un bb to niake hi* panned trip to Texas ai this time on account of official busine.** lf wa* ai.no’.nn cd e hoped lo visit Texan la'er. The message wa* by telephone BALTIMORE IS PICKED FOR NEXT SHRINE MEET LOS ANGELES, June 9 i’ With Galloway Calhoun of Harem temple, Waco, Texas, named imperial outer guard and Baltimou selected as next yeai's convention city, the Imperial Council of tin Ai - I,! Ambo- Older Nobles ' tin* C\ tic Sh inc. went into fine *e-’    *-4*b    annual    meeting- t lu-ie t'zdaj. M arnirik that clouds of government regulation and heavy taxation <vre threatening to * ast a shadow over the bright spot of I exa* on (fie national business map was sounded by NL R Boyd .Ii iy ’ex e pre - idem of the Ame: lean Petroleum institute He was th* -( raker at a Enc! en given fot delegate* and visitors to <■' a ii< a'n I hi er;t • : at **e God refinery t*.dsv nan Comparative data ma mr ms Ulgh-et  .......  '*    *4    *5 Low est    .       It    I*    74 I’rei-i|iit o ui ....... E    .. Barometer, J p. ii , J5.9J. HOLILY TEMPERATURES Y#»t*rfl*/    Today Taking * eI e,!i1 cf! f tie petroleum i “Texas c out. "The loo throughout the sanift high la1* $725.000,(KH) n 'I in Texas h Jan, J, 193 V is one hi ;ght -pol (»n a ll is oil. This industry ha* 'pillion years; ha* paid tai.-1 yoni this one indu <■- Tin* sum may be c-Mnparcd to $717,0(X) (XX) spent the federal government doling Die period March 4, 1933 to ai. average of only IIH,1- # a year. business maps ne pointed ii an,tamed it* opers'ions it* woikei- virtually the -•iv distributed moie that- VI. It BUIU JU, "I«»:-t y*ur -n*- the pctt• lenin industry paid Texas farmer more than lino,On" i•<ti ut loyalties bonuses and leases. That aum was equiva-h (it to moi i ti.an lo per ccm of the entire < .-.sh income of Texas farm-it - from thin total sales of livestock and crops. ’ Krum t) a hi gist pit tm* he turned to the danger signs of taxation and icgulauon.    "ng    rn ,t -st < - -he total tax eunttibutions ii urn »o I’sf** 12, (xtlunin 2> .V OFI It m p -in ta2 p. n...... 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