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VOL. XXXVIII
NO. 180
EIGHT PAGES
Associated Press Leased Wire
WORST MAUCH
Bowers Comes Home
DELAY IN HOUSE
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“Those boys did
in
hour
an
Senator Pannes Picket Line
LENGTHY PARLEY
Constitutionality Of
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HELD WITH USD
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If
country.”
Roosevelt Talks
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stltutlonal
on
was
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tiiere "
were not
d
un- !
on an
,h 68 to 65 favorable vote on a mo- mended a week ago |>y its constitu- ,
tlriM * le i 1 I lit* twvwt rvtrtai^nni nx>v«> ii/xj.rrl .. • <4... I i I rrV.«
MASSACHUSETTS WINS RIGHT
fot
Barkers of the program estimated ,
Arrues Against Validity
Negro Quizzed in
re-
t e m
n
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Yeldcr-
Bob
McCray and
Bl sy
cnts argue It's impossible to force
cotn
1868. Green
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Admiration
■flip State Game Fl. h and Oyster |
ed In around dorrs and windows.
Democratic Leaders Predict No
More Revolts This Session: Vote
On Reorganization Indicates I nity
Most Tex
You're a |
.Selecting a Judy to hear the fore-
de-
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out.
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Doubtful If Question
Can Be Reached
This Week.
Child’s Presence of
Mind Saves Cousin
Storm Blows Out Of
New England To
Atlantic Ocean.
Severe Dust
Storm in Denton
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Lo^al Option Argued
Acquaint now thyself with Him.
and be at peace - Job 22:21
thought that
Scotchman
in
to
27 Dead in Snow,
Sleet and Rain Storms
Little Damage Seen
From Heavy Dust
Blow.
Little Duat Damage
GUYMON, Ok March 13—<45—
EANT TEXAS: f '
Tueada) partly
request
S)>eakcr Bank)lead.
ax
and
bodies
home
sentlng opinion, in which Justice
Black concurred.
CITY. March 13.—(45
XII was quoted today
to London.
on
In
ABOUT
TOWN
VATICAN
Pope Pius
to
ad-
of "s i . .1
also w>» i
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pedestrians were killed by autos oft
ice-glaaed roadr
Michigan, Ohio. IncUaan and
Iowa suffered heaviest to the Mid-
dle West, but conditions improved
today.
A Sunday sleet storm caused ex-
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Commission placed twenty thous-
and quail over Texas in t...t;.:
habitats this year
thouaand more
tiled in the previous year
County sportsmen and fanners pur-
chased four hundred and twenty-
five of the birds which were put
on Denton County farms.
More Ixtcks for
('anal Considered
Foreclosure Suit
Trial Is Opened i
Legislature Due
to Start Pension
Battle Shortly
County Accounts
Paid by Court
Germans Wondei
New Invasion In
Prospect.
Traffic Cop says,
V | better to carry on with safe-
ty than M ts to he earned ott In
an accident
In re. the Chambers boys
Iteen living in Sweeter
twelve years
( tech* to Protest
PRAGUE, March 13—<45—CMCh
official quarters reported today the
Czecho-Hlovak government has de-
cided to protest to Germany against
act!vi ties of minorty Germans to
tills nation and of the Vienna ra-
dio station
They said tiie protest would be
| made within 12 hours against ' the
lilt" ixmiu ui.’m iirtfjr’ti 11 it i ia|mm < n - ( ..... - “ *JA"
lion problems and problems in con-
nection with the .cholastlc census
about 100,000 slaying
The couple were seen last by the
| There was no evidence of a strug-
gle in the tent
as they reported little crop damage
from the worst dust storm tn two
years which swept ■ ‘-----
square miles in six state*.
Hubert Lasater. county
I The J
Educate
general
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With Leaders on
Needs for WPA
WASHINGTON March 13 -</»■► — I
President Roosevelt discussed with
BERLIN, March IS—(AP)
—Chancellor Hitler received
Dr. Joseph Tiso, deposed Slo-
vak premier, for an “extend-
ed" conference today amid
acknowledgement hy official
sources that Germany would
make some sort of interven-
tion in the Czecho-Sovak sit-
uation.
Tiso. who was ousted from the
premiership of autonomous Slovak-
, la by the Prague general govern-
DENTON
?COLLECT GREEN TAX MONEY'
and Mexico
At times we
"Gee could the wind
day night have brought
s<
AUSTIN, March 13.—(AP)
—Advocates of relegalization
... of home race lietting under
were 10.000 feet up in a most scenic local option gained an advan-
j tag,. jn nOUSP today, then
lost it a half hour later.
At 10:30 a. in. the House voted.
70 to 54. to begin floor considera-
tion of the bill Immediately. At 11
o'clock, it voted. 78 to 60. to post-
pone consideration pending an
opinion from Attorney General
Gerald C. Mann on constitutional-
ity Of the local option feature
but larger rivers
flood stage at many
were dead and scores
■■■■ •; ■ . Wk
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia U. shown going through picket lines
into his Washington. D C hotel, one of I t affected by a trike of 2200
hotel workers
dieted tomorrow.
Snow fell today over Massacliu-
setu. Vermont, Rhode Island. New
Hampshire and Maine, leaving at
least 10 dead. It averaged more
titan a foot in depth.
About three Inches of snow fell
in New York City and three deaths
were attributed to weather condi-
tions there. Two died in Upetate
New York, where snow and lee cov-
ered the highways of the western
anti central portions.
Hotith in the Maryland Area,
tool, cloudy weather followed week-
the estate. Texas $6 685.057. New
York $5510.301 and Florida $4,663.-
857
Fifty years ago today A E Wright,
of Pilot Point, sold his store io
Jones and Autrey. Pilot Pount citi-
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DBNTON, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13, 1939
attitude of the German minority
iu Brunn < Brno) and Bratialava
and the interference of the Vienna
radio station in the republic's in-
ternal affairs.”
Czechs and Oermatw. clashed yes-
. terday In Biunn and the Vienna
I radio station broadcast a defiant
■ anti-Czech speech by Dr Ferdinand
, Durcansky. communiration* min-
ister in Blovag cabinet ousted last
Friday.
Further disorders were reported
to have taken place thia morning
49 miles northwest of Brunn, and
in fglau, a strong German “Island'’
in Olmueta
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were homeless in
Nouthwestern Iowa as Ice-Jammed
rivers crept out of their banks
iiiuoc uvjd uiu iii an iiuui .
what I thought would require all |
day.” said Supt R C Patterson .
"We had sixteen hundred shrubs
to plant around the football field
and we called on the boys of the
public school system to help in the
work Furrows tiad been plowed
m advance and that helped expe-
dite the planting. Each shrub was
planted by hand, well packed and
watered, and we expect to have a
fine hedge around the field soon,
and it will beautify the grounds "
i sion distribution
While most of this week's fire-
works on new taxes promises to be
in the House the Senate may move
considerably nearer floor considera-
tion A sub-group of the Senate
constitutional Hinendineiits commit-
J tee had Iteen Instructed Io rrroni-
mend a lax plan today It was ex-
pected tn Im hide a per (-eut gen-
eral ale., levy
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Mr and Mrs W F Brooks and
Miss Mary Ami*, have returned [
from Old Mexico where they visited
Mexico City and numerous other I
jxiinls of Interest durtaig their two >
weeks stay "I have never seen a I
more beautiful highway than that
between Monterrey
City.” Brooks said.
Dallas, arc new Denton
He comes to Denton as |
the ■
They I
'St t 1
‘ 1 States ambassador to London, as
| President Roosevelt because he al- i
I ernmental
Many persons believed the gover-
' ed In
|talned
Hills
Mass .
TERRA! ING
WAKETON
A terracing demonstration will be
iteld by County Agent G. R War-
ren Wednesday afternoon at 1
o'clock bn the ll D Bradford
farm about one mile north of Wake-
i ton
Fair and warmer a cork leg
—xrtly < loudy. , : “
Ware - weary Ambassador
Claude Bowers, his face showing
strain of service in Spain is
pictured aboard the Queen Mary
as he arrived in New York.
f 1
" of divine truths. One follows Na-
ture and Nature sc God, that is, lie
follows God in ins works and in
his word.—Boling broke
Tiie thirty-first annual statement
of the Southland Lite Insurance
Co of Dallas appears In todays
issue of the Record-Clironicle A
Morgan Duke is president of tiie
company Rollie Payne and Billy
Lanford are Denton County agents
< with offices in 218 Smooth-Curtis
Bldg “The Southland lias been
doing business m Denton County
over a long period of years.” they
saiid, "and at present it has $3,000 -
(KX) insurance in force in tiie coun-
ty ”
WASHINGTON. Marell 13 -</Ti
■ Encouraged by trie straight |»arty
vote by which the government re-
organization bill passed the House,
Democratic leaders predicted tod”
there would be no more revolts in
their ranks at this session of Con-
gress
Rep Raybum of Texas. Demo-
cratic leader and Rep Boland of
Pennsylvania, the party whip, said
they regarded the almost unani-
mous Democratic support of tiie
controversial measure as an indica-
tion Democrats no longer would
Join Republicans tn rejecting im-
portant administration proposals
Tiie leader attributed their new-
found ‘'cohesion" to a party cau-
cus a rnontii ago at which Speaker
Bankhead. Rayburn and others
pleaded for straight party votes and
Previously Legal
H<>r.c race betting wai. legal
Texas ‘rom September. 1933.
September. 1937 At that time there
was no local option feature The
| link in the administration's
| fctise program
On tiie eve of congressional hcar-
I Ings on a variety of proposals for
I supplementing the nation's 'llfe-
I line” between the Atlantic and Pa-
. indications today were tliat
the administration had turned
down plans for a canal across Nic-
aragua
Secretary Hull told Chairman
Bland <D-Va> of the Merchant Ma-
rine Committee the $100,000,000
Nicaragua projxisal was not In ac-
' cord with the president's program
On Hie other hand. It was learned
I the War Department still was con-
sidering the extra set of locks for
I the Panama Canal.
Democratic leaders of Congress to-
day how much additional money 1
would be needed to operate WPA
Until July 1
The leaders told newsmen after-
ward the president would send a
message to Congress tomorrow on
the subject
Asked whether the message would
request the lull $150,000,000 which
Congress cut from the presidept's
1 $875,000,000 request tn
re- |
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Crotrers Set 600
as Loa I of Local
Farm Association
' How Is your boy Josh, getting
along at college?”
------ Lasater. county
' here, recalling "black blizzards” In
, 1936 damaged wheat 95 per cent.
three other states over the right
, i
to collect an inheritance tax from ,
the $36,137,335 estate left by Col. ,
son of the :
WASHfNGTON March 1.3—<4b--
I Massachusetts won today tn the
| Supreme Court in its contest with
Houston Slaving
HOUSTON. March 13*—OP$—A
negro former inmate of an asylum
for the insane was held for ques-
tioning today in tiie double
murder of midd'aaged Mr
Mrs Joe Compton, whose
were found In their tent
yesterday
Sheriff Norfleet Hill said the ne-
gro was arrested in a wooded bayou
bottom not far from the scene of
I Cle?5 fartners. todfty th* crime He said no fingerprints
j been found in the tent to con-
nect the suspect with the double
It is the modest, not tiie preaump- HORSE RACING
tlous. inquirer, who makes a safe ■ Trn r* a r»r-
and real progress in tiie discovery ! ADVOCATES EACE
agent neighbors on Thursday They had
- ” .p been dead more than 24 hours when
predicted this year's loss probably - by an ax were found in their bed ' if1ntV18 °I>lnl0". 111 Jui',lr^ c atioin. presided at the meeting.
-----.j ---------7 I “n ax- werc louna in uieir o Black concurred, contending that attended by 54 men Eighteen were
the case should have been dismiss-| community chairmen, recently nam-
Prosccuting Attorney
crook ”
Attorney for Defense
limr '
Judge
have Identified each other, let
Temporary Defeat
The outcome seemed in cffivt a
temporary defeat for racing pro-
ponents because there was no cer-
tainty they could reach the bill
again this week It was reset for
tomorrow but tije controversial tax
resolution recommended by the con-
amendments committee
NEW YORK March 13 —op)
—Professor Albert Einstein, the
scientist, announced today lie
had discovered a new solution
of tiie riddle of gravitation
The riddle is the unknown
cause of gravitation and its con-
nection with electricity, matter
and magnetism Professor Ein-
stein kept the solution secret,
explaining that it would be
tested wtlh actual experiments
Hie announcement was made
in a birthday interview Ein-
stein will be 60 tomorrow—to
L E. Levick of the National As-
sociation of Science Writers,
and released through tiie asso-
ciation
Einstein tliinks lie has dis-
covered tiie clue to a long-
sought single law tiiat will ex-
plain tiie structure of tiie entire
universe and all the mysteries ot
matter and radiation
Gravitation Is tiie missing
link Everything else scientists
have suspected will become
clear if someone can learn how
gravitation originates
The county commissioners, in
monthly session here Monday,
spent moat of the morning checking
and allowing the county'* MUa
The co>rinilMionm$ regonvenetf
after the nooo receoa for other buN-
n«w. -
• . ;
natural i
That is near six I
Ilian were distrib- ;
Denton j
(pontiff, who usually remans seated ’ Of AbBene asked that his'name be
Idurng audiences, rose to greet him. , withdrawn after several East Texas
. and when the children came in tiie , SPnators objected to him on sec-
I Holy Father went to a table to get ’ tional grounds.
jtlon was ,-etUed many years ago by ' lor old age pensions with the
the then Chief Justice Nelson Phil-. mainder going to teachers' retire-
lips of tiie State Supreme Court, ment. aid to dependent children and Near frPezlna t e m n e r a t u r es
one of Hie greatest legal minds of . expenses of tax collection and pen- ! brn„ght an end lhe heavy week-
. end rains in Indiana. Small streams
were subsiding
were above
points. Two
homeless.
Hundreds
BLIZZARD SINCE
1888 SIMES
V ■
Maicli 25
That day, close of the member-
ship drive, is scheduled a meeting
at the Denton municipal building,
to organize for tiie ensuing year
to elect officers An out-of-
Fiy wheel
There's mi oifli'c boy
John Simpkins working here
1 sCe him ’ I'm Ills grandtathcr ”
Bors You've Just missed
He's off for tiie afternoon t
fend your funeral "
▼VIII1’ ' I’ ' BIU til’ I v-|» M, I n pi i i ir W ,
sheet was pickid up ialwid Wim-
ple's Restaurant The telegraph
sheet was dated March 11 in Amar-
illo. and it it blew down here it
must have come mighty fast.'
ment Friday because of agitation
for Slovak independence, arrived at
Berlin's Templehof Airdrome late
tills afternoon
Nazi elite guard troopa with a
band, accorded him honors usually
extended to a premier in office He
was driven directly to the chan-
cellery. where a propaganda min-
istry spokesman said he was re-
ceived by Hitler for a leng hy con-
ference
The ml'dest form of G’nr.a - r
tervention in the si ua icn n
he diplomatic reprei r
the possibility
if necessary”
by a foreign office spokesman.
Hie s|x>kesman Indlcaeo ha
even K only a diplomatic s’ep
was taken, the language of a O r-
man note would be eharp an .I un
equivocal
The spokesman wcu i
: mlt himself as to whether ,iu ,c
, sired result of Oiman Hterven-
. lion would be an “independent 610-
' vakia
I note in Traffic Cop says flint a
yellow light to advise caution.” i T||p |)nntj(f was described as
I had H|WH>S | living spoken of the pleasure lie |
IHPHIH H)l H i 1,,.,i mor'lliwt 111 <» nrot 'n funi.
1 original
January',
piled:
“You'll have to wait and see."
• Senator Wheeler <D-Mont> sug-
gested today that special congres-
sional committees be created
ptudy government fiscal and
minlstrallve policies with a view to
promoting economy and efficiency
+ “We as Democrats or pivigressives
must admit there Is a lack ot con-
fidence on the part of business,
both big arid little.” said Wheeler
"It 1* caused partly by threats of
war to Europe and the situation in
the Orient and partly by Internal
ujondlUon*
last year Some of the most im-
portant sections of that bill were
eliminated this year '*
Rayburn voiced gratification that
Rep Cox <D-Ga>, a frequent critic
of administration policies last year,
was a leader in the fight for the
reorganization bill.
Austin Not Surprised
AUSTIN Man’h 13. —<4^ - ‘Die
Su-
"He has its puzzled." said Farmer
Corntossel "He's a football player,
and also a feminine inpersongtor
in the dramatic club We u„.. L
know whether to treat him like a (three trips before the Are was put
roughneck or a lady.”
i a ruling on tiie merits. I
■ Born in England in 1868 Green 1
| engaged In business and jxilitics in [
I Texas until 1911 TTiercnftcr hr llv-
•CORD-CHRONICLE
country recognize the facts and
seek to regain the confidence of the
people, we will be supplanted by a
reactionary Republican administra-
tion in 1940 '
Ponder Expedition
German citizen*, recaning he
action taken during last Sep em-
ber's cruia over Czecho-SIcvakla's
Sudeten land, speculated whether a
new German expedition into he
neighboring republic was in the
I effing
Many believed that only compl-’te
I capitulation by President Emil Ha-
cha to the Slovaks could avert Ger-
man Interven Jon.
The fact that the Fuehrer re-
ceived Dr Tlson was taken as an
unmistakble sign of where official
German sympathies lie ip 'h» ccn-
troversy between the Czeclis and
Slovak*
'Before his departure from Slo-
vak mi. Dr Tiso. a Catholic priest,
announced lie was making the trip
PHILLIPSBURQ, Kas March 13 | cifie.
- (45—The presence of mind of 7-
year-old Rydla Alice Demotte prob-
ably saved the life of her cousin,
Mary Lynn Graves. 7
The two girls were standing In
front of a stove. Mary Lynn's coat
caught on fire.
"Stand real still." Lydia Alice j
told her. then dashed to the kltch- ;
don't' en for a pan of water She made I
NLATF.H NEAR
WEDNESDAY
the century''
"The matter was raised," Brad-
bury said, "in regard to a law which
would have allowed operation of
pod halls under local option and
Judge Pliillips held any statute
tiie subject had to l>e statewide
cffe> t ”
Charles E Bryson, of Ponder,
Justice Frankfurter wrote a dis- i present president of the local asso-
ciatioin. presided at
Well, ll seemed as though Ebb
Jolies farm was shifting to 'Dm
Smith's over in Montague County (
during the sandstorm Saturday al-(will have the right-of-way tonior- ;
• Those row and the lower chamber prob- i
f f o rm c I 4, F, | o will *MM*,*flM*l *k*ka*A
in a way ” R L Proller. on Ins Ing ft.
way to Graham, sakd. "I don't | After the House had voted amid
believe I've ever seen such a sand- cheering to take up the bill. Rep
storm as we drove into We turned J Bryan Bradbury of Abilene 1m-
ttr lights but couldn’t make mediately raised the point of order
much headway " Tom Brooks said. I that the local option provision
'The house didn't stop tiie sand— ' unconstitutional Speaker R Em-
it Just seemed to (lout through the ! mett MorsF overruled the point.
Iirrmediate Debate
Decision Later
Rescinded.
about and that carried. 79 to 60.
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of Katiir - (
this piece i
i By Associated Pres**
The worst March snow-
storm since the blizzard of
1888 spent its fury in the
New England State# today
and moved northeastward
over the Atlantic, ending a
varied week-end storm which
brought snow, sleet or rain to
most of the northern United
States and left at least 27
dead.
The weather moderated over the
Middle West today and clearing
skies were predicted in tiie last
tills afternoon. Generally fair waa-
| ther was predicted for the Middle
West tonight and tomorrow by
Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at Chicago.
I ItM'reasbig cloudiness and snow
along the northern border was pre-
Edward H R Green
famous Hetty Green
The high tribunal decided that
Massachusetts was the legal domi- • the
die of Green when he died in 1936 Association set a goal of MM) metn-
.Justice Stone delivered the optn- ( bers they Will seek by baturday.
Ion which Hfllimed a recouimenda-'
(tlou in favor of Massachusetts by
John S Flannery. Washington at
tornev apjxitntrd special master In
the case
Massachusetts claimed $4 947.008 ot ■ and to elect officers An out-of-
t----- .c not kt—. I tcwn speaker, vet to be selected, will I „ ,, .
be brought to Dinton to Hd(irw j "> Berlin at Hlltep invitation.)
the meeting on farm problems and j
The federal government already : legislation
has collected $17 620587 . - - -
Meeting here Saturdav afternoon,
group ot delegates representing
Di-nton County Agricultural
department Emma E Campbell ct al got under
way in District Court shortly before
noon Monday and first testimony
was expected to be heard during
tiie afternoon
The City of Denton won default
Judgments In two tax suits, against
Alien Howell et al and Sa rail J
Johnson ct al.
Saturday afternoon the court
heard the first criminal case this
term, when Marvin Hiompson
waived iurv trial and before Judge
Ben W Boyd entered a plea of
guilty to driving while intoxicated
He was fined $50 and erturt coat*,
sentenced to five days in jail and
Ills driver's license suspended for
six months Thompson gave notice
of appeal.
Roosevelt's personal senate Ills third selection for the
representativei at yesterdays r(jro- • important position of Chairman of
if ... jtiic highway commission Carr P
1 Collins of Dallas wni rejected bv
ambassador .said that the the upper House and J C Hunter
, would not exceed flve per cent.
actions tax, refrained from corn-j tome potnta plagued an area_ reach -
ment on tiie House committee pro-
I posal in Ills weekly broadcast yes- (
j hud hi meeting tiie president's fam- I
lily and his private secretary. Mar-
garet feliand. when lie visited Hyde
[ Park on Ills American trip
Before concluding the audience,
You in a (|)p jxvpc blessed the ambassador. |
his family, and aides who accom-
L On y
■ .tn.*Bln
■ • w
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fore that a horse would cat them." i
said John Worthy, and "it’s not |
a believe it or not. as f saw a horse
on my place pick up a iamb skin
it anil eat it.”
lion
‘Hie ixiarrl voted to extend the
Prosper bus route into the Good
Hope whool district in order to ac-
commodate more children Tiie resig-
nation of Earl Ryan as trustee of
Center Point school district was ac-
cepted. hut no one was appointed
to take lib place Ruel Wilson was •
appointed trustee of Good View
school district to replace C R
Baker, who has moved from the
district
The board discussed trans|>orta-
I him ’ ■■■
Io at- ( ----—— —--—
Roosevelt Has
Mr and Mrs. Sam Durham, form- | .j ,
rrly of Dallas, arc new Denton f Ope S
residents He eemes to Denton as i •
Junior Resident Engineer ol
State Highway Commission
arc domiciled at 111 Gary
and ate members <f the Presby-
terian Church
I WASHINGTON March 13 ‘A'i
Addition of a third set of locks in
1 the Panama Canal will tie con-
Nnw tliai von centIcmcn I 1 sldercd bv the House Merchant.
....._.4 -.—I. ..n.nr i..| us ,Pf ,',"1 Hr aLso sent his bless-, Marlnp committee tomorrow as a
' Ing to all American people I .. ... ... —... ...
pnx-eed with the case ” |
■ i knew that wolves, wildcats and j
other varmints sometiine6 killed
young lambs, but I never knew be- i
...... .
Deposed Premier of
Slovak Visits Hitler,
Intervention Hinted
The , Den ton County Board of
....v....lon met here Saturday In
business ses-sion during dustrial dictator, had spent only
which routine matters came before i a WPPk of his intended month in It-
the group tor discussion and ac- ’ aly. nothing was known of the
reason for hU sudden change of
plans
' the attorney general for an opinion bills and a boost of around 25 per i
prevailed, 72 to 63 'cent in natural resources taxes I
r_L ■. ,
of t>B|M-r from Amarillo?” asks BH. ' Arguing It would tie unconstitu- !" would bring In at least $33,000.-
Whlte who ‘Hid the telegraph news ( tjl)nil] to allow each county to vote « year More than three-fourtlu. I
on racing. Bradbury said that ques- .of the grass returns would tie used
fiixtv umv mam. «>*n v*c noo $*«> !f»r <>id HffP IW’nKiniVk With t hd» TA- ( ’ ", *'*”“” ’
1 in several sections of Central and
! Eastern Ohio
Near freezing
brought an end to the
A NYA Work Pto|fcl ha. !»•'11
approved employ ccti'i live
umttii C'itu'tv \'»iUts ii“i|>um biui'i
and 'Xj'itp a. public dal nui:’"’. it
'I.vler. .1 C Kellam. State You li
Director, announced The NYA i-
doing the wotk op the Clitipel ol (was no local option feature
3CW i racing Ihw wa.' repealed at insist-
ence of former Governor James P
l Allred, who called a special session
of the legislature for that purpose
Opponents of racing claim ft
weakens the states moral fiber and
that persons lose at tiie tracks the
money which they otherwise would
w man got tills un off tn flic Rotary- | use in imving their bills Proixm-
named |w>rMH)s to be good and that the
May onlv counties which would have
racing would be those in which a
majority of (lie citizens favor it
Goering Back to Berlin
BAN REMO. Italy. March 13 —
Field Marsha) Hermann Wilhelm
Goering. Relchsfuehrer Hitler’s
chief aide, today broke short hn
1 vacation in Italy and suddenly left
for Berlin
Goering and tils wife left Oer-
I many March 3 to stay at health
iseort here on the Itadlan reviera
His trip was represented officially
as private and solely for his health
although he had been expected to
go to Rome this week for talks
with Italian authorities and later
visit Libya
Al the hotel where the field
marshal, Nazi economic and in-
■
■1
terday
’ The boys In both Houses, tired
from day and night committee
meetings." lie said, "arc getting on
tlicir faces a more serious expres-
sion of determination of doing
i something constructive for you
i folks back home who sent them
here fully aware of what you want-
ed done."
O'Danirl barely mentioned gov-
I issues 4
temoon," said Steve Barron '
. fellows were Just exchanging farms ( ably will spend several days debat-
...... f n-. n... .... i,.. i i___
The Supreme Court today upheld
. ». . Ilt.zil4.ni .Ill/i fill. ’Tow
attorney general's
that apparently ended
I senators objected to him
them rosaries. hLs gift to the fam-
to advise caution." j
said a local motorist
signal meant
to start his engine."
ways admired ills stand for „.™.
8*01’ Many persons believed the gover-
Ilic jx»pc received Kennedy, who 1 nor this week would submit to the
was President Roasevelt'spersonal Renato Ills third selection for the
and eight of the nine Kennedy cllil-
, dren in a private audience.
The ' .......
regular attendance el,
sions *
But. Rep Martin of Massacini- | the master's findings and the Tex - I closure suit of Bakers Life Co va.
it.fjs ihl ti Mevi ik* Inurjpr tiuifj 1 JittOIllPV RPt 1 «S (tnno rt tn®t> t BSvsrtia V f'a »»■» r\Fw>l 1 r<t al evoi iiva«4«s**
anything | said that apparently ended the
Demo- | fight
| Heatings
Fort
Terrell
! multimillionaire's
McCraw contended
tie- [avail that it remained ills home un-
much different ' tn His death in 1036
Breeding and he has several uncles unfavorable vote The question next ted to the people for a vote thia
i slimmer, calls for a 2 12 per cent |
1 tax w retail sales, a levy at the
lines in fiotrttiern Michigan
Plain* were grounded Sunday at
Detroit, where one death and more
than a score of injuriM were at-
tributed to the ice.
Highways were under four or flve
feet of water from flooded streams
and when the children came In the
llv
Income lax Possible
Some House opponents of the
sales tax believed there was a pos-
ibilltv of substituting a net Income
tax Other House members said the
sales tax was certain to remain tn j
tiie projxise i constitutional amend-
ment and the only question was
whether its rates would stay at 2
1 2 per cent or be cut to 2 tier cent. [
Governor W Lee O’Daniel, who
I had advocated a 1 6 per cent trans- [
not innv t >> v rnf r-n i t v cwl f v-zsvvs oevr _
1 Ing from Tucumcari and Roswell,
N M . to Western Kansas and
.Southwestern Missouri, and from
i Wichita, Kas. to Del Rio. Tex
Word has been received litre ol
the srrloig illness ol Clarence
• HreedUig in Sweetwater He lx sill
ferinfi troiu a. Lmi<uL. attack. Hired
mg tormerly lived here and t'
Bartonville sot) of the laic I B
. | Tsa • 111' • • v ’ 1 I ssx i * | o 11 | lUlllvll 1 ur! I I 111 I I VW. v A 11 w
lint a roll call revealed a 69 to 65 resolution, which would be'submit-l
i 'III. iiiiiav.TTauir tow llir qurowvu nrxr t
He h.vs I recurred on the motion to postpone.
■ u* I »4 ill! uliti tl*i*$ nucriArl "Ml * r*
severest dust storms ever seen here. |
early Saturday night After a day
of hard wind, tiie sand appeared as
a cloud in tiie west late In the
afternoon and at dust struck with
fury here.
Visibility was very limited during
the period of the heavy blow, and
homes and business houses were i
filled with the fine slit which drift- ' day partly cloudy, colder in west decision of the United States
It. a i-ni.T.a wi.wlrauc I ...a wa.41, ma.4I.hk ....... C'mi.H Tzw4..> In lit. f t
: Green inheritance tax case was a I
, bitter pill for Texas but far from
i surprising.
[ When former Attorney General ;
I William McCraw instituted Texas'I
flgtit for the taxes tn 1937, some :
i persons liejicved Hicie was a pos-
slbilitv of the state collecting al-|
most enough money to eliminate I
tiie general fund deficit Mast Tex :
I ans lost virtually all hope, however,
when a ijiecinl 1 master who had
| been hearing the controversy held
House ses-I last November for Massachusetts.
..
setts. Republican House leader, said [
lie could not see "tiiat
Important has happened
cratic successes the rest of tills ses- | Hearings on the tase were field
sion would depend, lie said, on 1 in widely separated cities, including
whether President Roosevelt still- | Dallas Fort Wortli and Terrell,
mitted "anvthltig else cont rover- Texas Terrell was tiie ec centric
sial.” [multimillionaires one-time home
"Anyway. Martin added 'the re-j and McCraw contended without
organization bill was no teist lie-[avail
cause it was a piii.h different !»n >,'i
measure than the one we whipped i
I ed bv the Supreme Court without J ed to woik with four local commit-
1 icemen In each community to handle
’ tiie membership drive
New York City and main- j S( llOol I robleillS
Jia lai lai homes at Round i f * / f * f
Farm South Dartmouth. IM’I OTC t»OUCO
and at Star Island. Miami.
| He weighed 315 pounds and had .
, " ' 7 He engaged tn varied)
Denton was visited by one of the j tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy. ) activities, ids interests ranging from I
Gentle variable winds on the coast, ' politics and astronomy to minstrel '
becoming moderately southrcely by shows and tiie private life of the
Tueaday. j boll weevil.
WEST TEXAS: Fair, slightly | Tiie litigation was tiegun by Tex-
warmer In southeast portion l4>ni(li;t , »s which asked the .Supreme Court
Tuesday fair, somewhat colder in to detenulnc Green's domicile,
the Panhandle.
OKLAHOMA: Fair, warmer In east
and south portions tonight; Turs-
xlraaaafw <>ol«l*r In a* Awl
I and north portions. ’ preme Court today in* tiie E H R ’
AUSTIN, Marcii 13 —<45 - ’Die
Legislature began tiie first week of
the session's last half with a spir-
.. ..... ™....... ,az..... *’ed battle imminent in tiie House
windows and doors’as though they ! holding that was a matter for the ' over a program which would raise)
----- .... courts to determine Texas taxes more than $30 000.000)
Bradbury then appealed to Ills 1 a year ) ____ ____ _
colleagues to postpone action un- ' Tiie lower chamber probably will,
til on the point from the attorney ) begin floor debate tomorrow on an rains ana mow numea. two
| gt*neral. Tiie voting machine allowed old age pension tax proposal reeom-
ai fion to kill the postponeiflent move tional amendment., committee "Die
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