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Gatinesbille Wito Register
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VOLUME XLVIII
GAINESVILLE, COOKE COUNTY, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1938
SIX PAGES
NUMBER 182
HUNGARY SEEKS CZECH TERRITORY
Ringmaster
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equally determined to use such a
“We are unalterably opposed to
Criminal Negligence
together
with
navy and that further heavy ex-
Robert McLean
v independence, t h
tri - partite
come
Although
there i little expecta-
tion that a new party would have
circus and
countrywide
elect ions.
members of
congress were divided
i c h
over the question of whether the
for a political realign-
The bill, previously passed by the director of the West Texas Cham-
in-
Wichita
vention of the Circus Fans associa-
recovery program . .
were con-
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pression with
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for liberals to place him at
citizens. Local
WASHINGTON, April 26 (API.
a —uc-o-, dll ci ills T-— -
A brother, Louie Crowe, was
near
removing all income tax exemp-
him, the elder McLean having been urer.
state securities issues and salaries.
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Near McFadden
yesterday the
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party of
WASHINGTON, April 26(AP) -
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The Bankhead brothers from
town.
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showers in north and west
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Opposes
Big Navy
Says Senate May
Not Approve FDR
Tax Exemptions
Liberals’ Parley
Excites Lively
Capital Interest
Baby Killed in
Auto Accident
Predicts Economic
Breakdown in’42
Montague-Bowie
Road Contract Let
New Trial Denied
For Martin Suit
More Slot Machines
Being Exported
Serator Barkley Makes
Statement Regarding
The Recommendations
Potential Strength of
National Third Party .
Object of Speculation
Pierson Suspect
Taken Into Custody
interest among legis-
g to ascertain the po-
combatting the de-
“wasteful extrava-
"This
June
. Norris based part of his opposi-
tion to the navy bill on the pos-
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on “The 1
H. B. Waite and party of circus
fans, Waco; V. N. Armstrong and
San Antonio river surged above
flood stage, blocking the Houston-
Lower Rio Grande valley highway
south of here. Lowland residents
moved out speedily as the streams
rose, in some instances abandon-
citing lively
lators seekir
por-
and
Prime
aban-
when
for a meeting of liberals at Madi-
son. Wis.. Thursday night isjex-
By WILLIAM B. ARDERY
WASHINGTON, April 26 (AP).
Falls.
In conjunction with the circus
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tached
“alarm”
time is ripe
ment.
Guadalupe Overflows
Lowlands, Causes Much
Damage in South Texas
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scattered showers.
Today noon, 72. high
80; low last night, 66;
year, 85; low, 15.
. greeted Da lather’s presentation of
his “three year plan” for r< build-
ing France economically left the
Two Speakers Heard on
Subject at West Texas
C. of C Meeting
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Senator Tom Connally to
Be Honorary Ringmaster
For Initial Performance
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yesterday,
high’ for
journ.
Said Senator Bankhead:
session will extend through
15 or longer."
WASHINGTON, April 26 (AP).
Senator Norris (Ind-Neb), usual-
ly an ardent administration sup-
porter, said today he would vote
against President Roosevelt's naval
expansion bill.
Norris' statement that “we have
T. V. A. PROBE TO START
WASHINGTON, April 26 (AP).
The congressional investigation of
the Tennessee Valley Authority
will get underway tonight at an
in formal meeting of the five sen-
ators and five representatives ap-
pointed to make the inquiry. Sen-
ator Donahey (D-Ohio) said it
would be a “Get Acquainted Ses-
sion.”
chain telegrams started by their
henchmen in different states, many
HUNGARY
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Sandra Martin, former secre-
tary to the French film actress,
Simone Simn, denied a charge
she took $16,000 from the star,
Reads Anonymous Letter
While legislators were discussing
the spending-lending program.
Democratic Leader Rayburn of
Texas read the house yesterday
an anonymous letter which he said
President Roosevelt had received.
“I thought you (and Jim Far-
tomobile service station the e.
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Bankhead Brothers
Anglo-French Military
And Diplomatic Unity
• Plans Near Completion
■ PARIS, April 26 (AP). —Pre
’mier Edouard Daladier put the fi-
Legislators, while generally favor-
ing his objectives, disagreed over
the question of whether they could
be effected by mere legislation or
whether a constitutional amend-
ment would be necessary.
A plan similar to that outlined
by the President was submitted to
on that date right now.”
Madison conference would offer an
opportunity for liberals to pledge
support to the president for a
third term. He said that if Mr.
Promises ‘Fireworks’
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by J. A.
WEATHER
Gainesville and Vicinity — To-
night and Wednesday, cloudy.
_________• president of the
Gainesville National bank anti local
•Proposes
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Fa+ls Wednesday morning-, will
to Gainesville Wednesday
Sanderson Elected
LONGVIEW, Texas, April 26
(AP).—Paul T. Sanderson, Trinity
lumber man, was elected president
of the East Texas Chamber of
Commerce today to succeed E. L.
Smith, Mexia lumber man.
Beaumont was unanimously se-
lected as the site for the 1939 con-
vention after Galveston had with-
drew its invitation. The convention
moved swiftly toward its closing
business and elected a big batch of
vice presidents.
Hubert M. Harrison of Longview
was reelected vice president and
general manager and C. A. Loftus
of Longview was named treas-
NFWPORT, Ark., April
(AP).— Four persons were killed
Wharton, lacked ten feet of flood
stage. Some cattle were lost in
the section between Wharton and
. Victoria, where the Navidad river
ter , Jarreau, Alexandria, La., was out of its banks, and lowlands
Louisiana; state CFA chairman; , and ditches were filled.
Tom Murray, Fort Worth, corres- ” "5
pondent for World’s Fair. London;
favored a strong navy
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Decatur several years ago.
Mr. Crowe attended the Gaines-
ville public schools and was em-
ployed by the Santa Fe railroad
as a brakeman for a numter of
years, losing a leg in a ra ilroad
accident. He had lived in Ardmore
nine years and for the pas sev-
i eral years he had operated an au-
I COMPLETE OOVERAGE.
office “understood” British
Minister Chamberlain had
WASHINGTON, April 26( API-
Speaking of business the Com-
merce Department reported today
that exports of American slot ma-
chines have doubled in the last
year.
BOHEMIA Ca-K
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fSLOVAKIA
Eight signers of the Declaration
of Independence were foreign
born.
The senate heard other criticism
of the naval expansion measure,
and Senator Nye (R-ND), an op-
ponent, predicted a vote would not
be reached before Eriday. Spon-
sors of the bill ar considering
seeking a limitation of debate to
hasten action.
Pittman’s Prediction
Chairman Pittman (D-Nev) pre-
dicted meanwhile that the senate
foreign relations committee would
give early approval to a measure
to the letter spoke of
NOCONA, April 26.—The con-
tract for grading and drainage
structures on highway 59. from
Montague toward Bowie, has been
let by the Texas highway commis-
sion to H. L. Campbell of Fort
Worth.
Contract calls for $24,278. The
new road is on an entirely new
right of way and cuts the distance
to Bowie from Montague by two
miles.
Work is expected to begin at
once.
Col. C. G Sturtevant, southern
vice president and national his-
torian of i the association, who re-
sides in San Antonio, is expected
to arrive \ late today to preside at
the meeting.
Highlights of the gathering will
be Col. Sturtevant’s address to the
COLEMAN, April 26 (AP).—_ The 83-year-old barrister was
An eight-months-old baby was ; playing with his Great Dane dog
night to officiate as honorary
ringmaster for the opening per-
formance. His visit was arranged
by Joe M, Leonard, general press
.......
on a
affiliated towns
in an automobile accident
ub Wednesday at noon
Circus as a Hobby.” and !
circus fans, Wichita
sibility that “if we start to build
tions from future
_______ - Houston, owners of the original
federal - and underprivileged children’s circus;
Burtis L. Wilson of Chicago, as-
sistant editor of White Tops; Hun-
representative of the
editor of The Register.
Mr. Connally will I
panied to Gainesvile
An auspicious opening of the
ninth season of the Gainesville
Community circus at Fair Park
a stand by her Czechoslovak, alij
and that Reichfuehrer Hitler was
R3-
-Kena4
Gainesville Community circus
Wednescay evening and will blow
the whistle inaugurating the first
performance of the 1938 season
at the iair grounds.
pact to keep his
: eastern Europe.
♦ Unified Action.
These points,
♦ Franco - British
a whole lot of battleships, we may <
find by the time they are built that
the battleship is out of date as a
weapon of naval warfare.” •
The veteran Nebraskan said he
would not oppose some expansion
in the navy's air force, but de-
clared the proposed $1,156,000,000
bill for ships and planes together
is “too big.”
Norris said He thought the
$550,000,000 annual appropria-
tion bill passed earlier in the ses-
ing livestock and household
goods.
Crop damage and flooded busi-
ness houses in the downtown area
were reported at Yoakum, where
’12 inches of rain splashed down
in 24 hours.
The Southern Pacific rail read
track was washed out and train
service was suspended yesterday.
The approach to a highway bridge
in the section was washed out, and
numerous small bridges damaged
by flood waters, lowlands to the
west of Yoakum were under wa-
ter.
Drenching rains were reported
yesterday over the entire section
of south Texas.
elected to that post in 1900. He
served until 1924 when his son suc-
ceeded him. The family purchased
the Bulletin in 1895. <
The new president lives in Fort
Washington, Pa., and is a member
of the Union League, Rittenhouse
and Princeton clubs in Philadel-
phia. He was married to Clare
Randolph Goode on April 28, 1919.
Henry Ford tomorrow, may send Senator Barkley of Kentucky, the
congress a message late this week Democratic floor leader, said today
on revising the anti-trust laws. An it was “in the realm of doubt”
Burton, and his father, Ed Crowe,
skilled
Fans to
chairman
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wi. . i
tion tonight and Wednesday; cool-
er in west portion tonight and in
west and north portions Wednes-
day. . .
Funeral services will be held in
Ardmore Wednesday morning at
10 o’clock, with burial in. the Ard-
4 more cemetery.
" Mr. Crowe is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Mary Jennings Crowe,
two sons, James Edward and Joe
“This is being originated in a
• large corporation in Detroit, Mich., ployers, and the terms
the same outfit that got out the contracts.
‘ Domestic relief needs
ganda about to be launched on country would be forced to register . .
members of congress against your with the state department and | tion will be held at the Turner Ho-
furnish information about their | tel in Gainesville Wednesday.
propaganda activities. their em- Sturtevant to Preside
of their
house, has been dormant for sev-yber, and Oral Jones, president of
eral months, the City National bank,
Under its terms, all agents of
Wednesday evening is in prospect
sion had provided for an adequate with many visitors from a number
| midnight of a gunshot wound ac-
. cidentally inflicted while
hunting trip Monday afternoon.
foreign governments, political par-
_ ties or business concerns seeking
interested in copies of the propa- to influence the politics of this
ley)" the letter read, "might be
nal touches today to his plans for
Anglo-Franch military and
2. The understanding her that
Pthe British government has given
up its plans to expand the friendly I
agreement with Italy into a four-
tions and upper coast tonight
Wednesday. Moderate to fresh
southeast winds on the coast.
West Texas: Cloudy, probably
scattered showers in north
of which were signed by minor
children, babes in arms, and even
the family pet poodle, and con-
gress fell for it like a ton of brick.
So they are about to try it again.”
Copies of a petition form at-
gance.”
Representative Michener (R-
Mich) interrupted Rayburn to re-
quest that he also submit “peti-
tions being circulated among WPA
workers” urging congress to vote
for huge expenditures.
President Roosevelt, who will I
discuss the business situation with !
monetary accord with the United
States and a general survey of
! such questions as Spain and recog-
* nition of Italian Ethiopia, we re ex-
pected to be discussed when Da-
NEW YORK, April 26 (AP).—
Robert McLean, president of the
Philadelphia Bulletin, today was
elected president of the Asso-
I ciated Press.
He succeeds Frank B. Noyes,
president of the Washington Star,
who retired yesterday after serv-
ing in thatl capacity for 38 years.
The board of directors elected
W. W. Cowles of the Spokane
Spokesman-Review first vice presi-
dent, and Paul Patterson of the
Baltimore Sun, second vice presi-
dent.
, The other officers, including the
executive board, were reelected.
McLean became a member of
the Bulletin stff in 1913, after he
was graduated from Princeton uni-
versity with a bachelor of litera-
ture degree.
, He worked in the news, circula-
possible arrangements for a uni-
j fied command in event of war, a
more explicit statement from
, Prime Minister Chamberlain con-
cerning support of Czechoslovak
doned that part of his plan
he saw France was determined to
power pact to include Germany. .
- The premier made known his j
flat opposition to any four- power
pact that would include Germany.
j French officials said the foreign
killed and four women injured to- at his home at the time oft the ac-
day when an automobile overturn- j cident. The dog playfully jumped
ed ner Silvery Valley, 10 miles I against Owsley, causing him to
northwest of here. The baby’s [ fall. Owsley is the oldest member
mother, Mrs. J. P. Stevens of j of the Denton County Bar asso-
“ “ ‘ i. -ciation. _
Representative O’Connell
(Mont.) has contended that ■ the
and nine injured when a school
bus and a truck ldaded with WPA
workers .collided on a bridge near
Weldon, 12 miles south of here to-
day.
The dead were:
FANNIE , LOU TORIAN, 16,
Weldon.
BILLY TORIAN, 13, Weldon.
TOM ODOM, 35, Auvergene.
TOBE ROBINSON, 40, Mill-
the head of a new ticket.
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.)
said the time is ripe for a new
party. Such a trend has been de-
veloping 20 years, he said and a
“realignment of the political par-
ties is overdue."
O’Mahoney said a third party
might wield influence in the 1940
elections, but asserted that none
could now predict what form a
new organisation might take.
A highly-placed Republican, who
declined to be quoted by name,
argued that the La Follette meet-
ing indicates a drift of Progres-
sives away from the president.
Four Killed in
Bus-Truck Crash
requiring registration of all for- Hulme.. vice
eign propagandists. •c
premier free to work out his
ternational problems.
: Jesse Crowe, 38,
Former Citizen,
■ Is Fatally Shot
! --— -
Ardmore Citizen Dies
Of Accidental Wound
.0 Ph.
Senator Norris (Ind.-Neb.) as-
serted today that third party ad-
vocates should hang back until it
is determined whether President
Roosevelt will seek another term.
“The president doesn’t want a
third term, ” Norris said, “but if
a coalition of Democrats and Re-
publicans ini congress succeeds in
blocking his measures, the people
will insist that he run again.
“I think the formation of any
third party should wait until we
see whether he will have to run
for president for another term.”
Third Term Talk
Oklahoma: C l o u d y. pos sibly
showers in west portion tonight
and Wednesday: cooler in north-
west portion yesterday.
East Texa: Cloudy, scattered
McLean was away from the
paper in 1916 when he served with
the United States army on the
Mexican border, and again during
the world war. During the war he
rose from a second lieutenant to
major of artillery, being attached
to the 311th field artillery of the
79th division.
President of Bulletin
Upon the death of his father, the
late William McLean, in 1931, he
became president of the Bulletin.
He has served as a director of the
Associated Press since 1924. -
For the past year he has been
first vice president of the Asso-
ciated Press.
McLean’s father was a director
of the Associated Press before
Roosevelt was not renominated by
the Demorats, it would be “Very
Jesse Crowe, 38, former Caines-)_______________ . _ ____
ville citizen, died in a hospital at the paper to become familiar with’jumping from 166 to 188.
Ardmore, Oklahoma, Monday at the entire operation of the paper. ______
and promised “plenty of fire-
works” would follow. She is shown any increase,
at the Los Angeles county jail. C1 ' "c"
In an Ardmore Hospital
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To Open Season in
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Legislation May Not
Be Ready for Debate
By May 1 as Planned
Usually an Ardent
New Dealer, Nebraska
Solon Takes Issue
'Isolate
MORE THAN
800 PRODUGING ' A '
OIL WELIS IN 2
/ COOKE OOUN- ~E
THE REGISTER GIVES
Of cities and towns in Texas and
penditures might be wasteful. [other states expected to be pres-
Some time ago, Norris said he l ent.
because United States Senator Tom Con-
nally, one of the principal speakers
at the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce convention in Wichita
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BROWNFIELD, Texas, April 26
(AP).—A youth answering to the
general description of Howard
Pierson, slayer of his parents,
Judge and Mrs. William Pierson,
was jailed here today while offi-
cers investigated his identity.
Pierson escaped several days
ago from the state hospital at
Austin, and has been the subject
of a wide search. The youth en-
tered a hardware store at 7 a. m.,
and asked, for razor blades. The
salesman said the youth resembled
Pierson, and he notified officers.
opening, the Southern States con-
Clarence H. Leonard,
of the tent, composed of
______ _____cooperation in
| joint purchase of wap materials.
One thousand persons per month
were murdered or killed by crim-
inal negligence in the United
States during the last 18 months,
R. C. Harbo, administrative assist-
ant to J. Edgar Hoover of the fed-
eral bureau of investigation, said
. in a prepared address.
"This 18.000 death toll is one
third of the number of the men
killed in an equal length of time
in the world war," he said. Also
there had been in the United
States during this time approxi-
mately 71,000 felonious assaults,
resulting in wounds to the victims.
“Add to theee figures the’number
of robberies, burglaries ard other
miscelleaneous offenses nd we
have a total of 2,000,000 serious
crimes committed in the United
States. Each year the cost of
crime amounts to several billions
of dollars."
“Prevention and suppression of
crime constitutes one of the most
important problems confronting
United States citizens," he said,
urging strong public opinion in de-
manding vigorous enforcement of
the law. 1
Hulme Reelected •
J. A. Hulme, vice president of
the Gainesville National bank, was
reelected director for Gainesville
in the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce, at ,the annual conven-
tion in Wichita Falls Monday. A
board of 211 directors was named.
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PITTSBURGH, April 26 (AP)-
Howard Scott, prophet of Tech-
nocracy, predicts a major econo-
mic breakdown in the United
States in 1942 with 40,000,000 per-
sons out of work.
“We will be producing 40 per
cent more but using 30,000,000
fewer people to do it,” he said
yesterday.
The solution, as Scott sees it:
“The conduct of affairs must be
governed by specifications of
technocracy. Measurement must
be substituted for values.”
the business session at the hotel at
2 pm. when Col Sturtevant will
present the charter of ■ the An-
toinette doncello tent of the Circus
Said Speaker Bankhead: “I think
adjournment will be not later than
June 1. In fact, I’m putting a peg
Voice Opposition
To More Taxes on
DENTON April 26.—A. C. Ows-
ley, veteran Denton county lawyer,
was reported in a critical condir
tion at his home where he has been
confined to his bed for several
weeks following a fall in which he
suffered a fractured hip.
United States Senator
DENTON, April 26.—Counsel
for Miss Mildred Fortenberry,
former S. C. W. student who
brought damage suit against G.
W. Martin after she was injured
in a Bell avenue automobile acci-
dent, lost their motion for a new
trial of the suit Saturday when
District Judge Ben W. Boyd de-
nied it. Notice of appeal from the
decision was given.
The jury hearing the Denton
trial fixed the girl’s injuries at
$9,500 but found she was partly
responsible for the accident. This
last finding denied her recovery of
any sum. Plaintiffs counsel
sought a new trial, chiefly on al-
legations of jury misconduct, that
improper considerations entered
the jurors’ deliberations.
bama Senator John and Sp eaker
William-disa£teed today on the
probable date congress will ad-
ladier and his foreign minister,
Georges Bonnet, visit London
Wednesday - Thursday.
* Immediate approval w,h
hands fr e in
honorary ringmaster of
Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stuart,
Oklahoma) City; Senator and Mrs.
O. R. Varj .Zandt. Tioga; and rep-
resentatives of Dallas and Fort
Worth newspapers.
Final dress rehearsal of the cir-
cus will be held in the big top to-
night and Leon Gilmore, eques-
trian director, said Tuesday, every-
thing was in/ top shape for the
opening of the show tomorrow.
Photographers Coming
Western Panograph company,
professional photographers, will
have a crew of men here to make
pictures for several nationally cir-
culated magazines, including Life.
Jimmy Lederer, Universal news-
reel photographer, with headquar-
ters in Austin, telegraphed Mr.
Gnmore Tuesday morning, that he
had been assigned to make motion
pictures of the opening here for
Universal, and he was leaving
Austin this morning for Gaines-
ville.
James Laughead, staff photog-
rapher for the Associated Press,
with headquarters in Dallas, ad-
vised Tuesday that he would arrive
in Gainesville at 2 p. m., Wednes-
day, to make pictures for the As-
(Continued On Page Four)
eight Gainesville
WASHINGTON, April 26 (AP).
House committee hearings on the
administration pump-priming and
relief program were progressing so
slowly today that members pre-
dicted the legislation would not be
ready for floor debate by May 1.
Leaders had hoped that if the
bill reached the house by that date,
it would be ready for President
Roc sevelt’s signature three weeks
later.
Secretary Ickes was called be-
fore the committee today to dis-
cuss resumption of a broad public
works program, inasmuch as he
has served as PWA administrator.
Simultaneously Representative
Reiter (D-NY) proposed that
PWA be made a permanent branch
of the interior department and
that it be given new powers over
the operation of publicly-con-
structed projects.
WICHITA FALLS, April 26
(AP). — Strenuous opposition to
additional taxes on the petroleum
industry was voiced by speakers
at the annual West Texas Cham-
ber of Commerce convention here
today.
e H. B. Fell, of Ardmore, Okla.,
executive vice president of the In-
ternational Petroleum association,
told a group conference technical
advances had made it possible to
give consumers good products at
low prices despite excessive taxa-
tion but the process could not be
kept up forever.
“It is essential there be no ad-
ditional tax burdens,” he said.
J. C. Hunter of Abilene, presi-
dent of the West Central Texas Oil .
and Gas association, said oil men
did not oppose paying their share
of taxes sufficient for economical
administration of the state gov-
ernment but objected to unfair-
ness.
“Their complaint,” he said “is
that taxes are not levied on an
equal and uniform basis as pro-
vided by the constitution. They are
protesting against allowing un-
constitutional inequalities.
The shaded area on this map shows the part of Czechoslovakia
which the Hungarian Revision league, meeting legally for the first . . . , for
stkw; ! Sa ӣ2^.^
Trianon in 1920. In Bohemia, Sudeten Germans demanded autonomy I C ngression 1, foreign relations
for themselves. i eral phases of foreign relations.
' _____________ : I In the house, members of the
' 1 ( foreign affairs committee expected
Tb Ta • • Th i • A to learn during the morning
Hump-rrming, Relief i whiiyperasheranaa is - s
— — 7 I as treaty violators.
V TT • A Chairman McReynolds (D-Tenn)
rrogram Hearings Arehponsesgvrargusepaytepfesen-
— tative Scott (D-Calif) that treaty
Progressing Slowly ..........."" “ “
La Follette’s call
Gov. Philip
Named President
Associated Press
________a
Suceeds Frank Noyes
Who Served 38 Years as
Head of Organization
influence in this
matic cooperation intended to iso-
late Germany and thwart her
dream of a middle European em-
pire.
Two steps already had been
‘ taken to offset German annexa-
tion of Austria and presumed Ger-
man support of nazi demands for
self-government for Germans in
4 Czechoslovakia:
1. The joint Franco-British
, move to woo Italy from the Rome-
Berlin axis by friendship paqts.
the senate by Senator Clark
(D-Mo.) when the tax revision bill
was under consideration and voted
down, 41 to 23. Administration
followers, including Barkley, were
among the opponents.
Sees More Support
Clark said today that Mr.
Roosevelt's message might bring
many senators around to support-
ing tax exemption legislation.
Barkley, however, said the pre-
vious vote made a general change
of sentiment appear doubtful.
A bill to end existing tax ex-
emptions would have to originate
in the house ways and means
committee, which initiates all rev-
enue legislation. Chairman Dough-
ton (D-NC) of that group de-
clined to predict whether action
could be taken at this session.
“We will have to have a meet-
ing and go over the president's
message before we can tell what
we are going to do,” Doughton
said.
Most congressional leaders in-
terpreted Mr. Roosevelt’s recom-
mendations as meaning he would
be pleased if action were taken
at this session but would not in-
sist on immediate consideration.
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Carroll, Morton Smith, Roy P.
Wilson, Foy Stamps and Gideon D.
Bell.
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guests of a barbecue in the circus
backyard preceding the perform-
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By OLEN W. CLEMENTS
VICTORIA, April 26 (AP). —
Swollen tributaries of the raging
Guadalupe river today fed the
river from a dozen sources as the
river at Gonzales continued rising
half a foot an hour, heading for
a 30-foot stage expected some
time tomorrow.
Heavy rains in the Yoakum,
Cuero and San Marcos areas put
the river out of its banks in the
lowlands yesterday, damaging
crops and causing slight livestock
loss.
The river here was falling after
inundating lowlands on the out-
skirts of town. Observers said the
water pouring into the Guadalupe
from the terrain in this area would
move into the Gulf of Mexico be-
fore the Gonzales rise began to
affect the river stage in the Vic-
toria-Cuero area.
Farm Lands Flooded
Rich farm lands in the river
bottoms were flooded and farm-
ers expected newly replanted
crops, damaged at Easter by a
heavy frost, would be almost a to-
tal loss.
At Hochheim, a small town
eight miles from Yoakum where
12 inches of rain fell Sunday,
Peach creek was rising slowly and
emptying into the Guadalupe. The
river there stood at 26 feet and
needed to rise several more feet
before serious damage would oc-
cur.
The river rose swiftly yesterday
to a 26-foot stage after torrential
downpours along its southern wa-
tershed, and the creeping flood
chased families in low eastern and
western outskirts of Victoria from
their homes, in some of which wa-
ter was a foot deep.
Unless additional rains between
San Marcos and the gulf should
send down a much higher crest,
however, more water in the city
here appeared unlikely.
Tracks Washed (hit
Heavy rains, ranging up to 12
inches, destroyed crops, washed
out numerous small bridges, swept
away railroad tracks, and covered
highways in this section.
At Gonzales, the Guadalupe
river yesterday reached 23 feet,
three feet above flood stage, and
was steadily rising last night to-
ward a predicted 30-foot stage.
At a mark of 28 feet the waters
would begin pouring across High-
way 29, south of Gonzales, and
the 30-foot stage would inundate
and necessitate the replanting of
hundreds of acres of river land.
County Agent O. W. Thompson of
Gonzales said.
At Cuero, 30 miles north of Vic-
toria. where August Boldt, engi-
neer of the Central Rower and
Light company dam, predicted a
crest of 30 feet by Wednesday, the
Guadalupe dropped half a foot
yesterday after reaching a mark
of 24 feet.
Such a rise would close all but
two highways to Cuero and cover
thousands of acres of valley farm
lands only recently replanted after
killing frosts.
Eastward flood waters of the
San Bernard river threatened
parts of the Corpus Christi-Vic-
toria and Houston-Victoria high-
ways, and from Houston west-
ward to the San Bernard, the flat
ranch and farm lands lay under
thin sheets of rain water. Cattle
huddled near fence lines and crops
appeared damaged.
Colorado Rising
The Colorado river, rising at
informed person said it probably whether the senate would approve
would request a broad study by a 'President Roosevelt's tax exemp-
joint congressional committee to tipn recommendations.
report next January. Mr. Roosevelt suggested yes-
terday that congress enact a bill
year’s congressional
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