Amarillo Daily News (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 16, 1930 Page: 1 of 20
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AMARIL
PRICE FIVE CENTS
AMARILLO, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 16,1930.
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BRISTOW REVEALS OPERATIONS OF "GRISTEROS
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> PAN HANDLE MUSIC FESTIVAL OPENS TODAY; 1200 ENTRANTS
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WILBUR ORDERED TO REINSTATE OIL PERMIT APPLICATIONS
TEXAS MINER
ARTESIA CASE
As New U. S. Crusier Put to Sea
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Need $50,000 Fund for
in cases involving the following
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City Auditorium
TO USE RIVER
TO GOLF SOON
HARDWARE MEN
REFUSE ATTACK
ON BIG CHAINS
NOTED ARTISTS
ON PROGRAMS
TO PAY INCOME
TAX OF $439537
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IS ONE RULED
FORBYCOURT
JIM YOUNG TO SPEAK
IN AMARILLO TONIGHT
WILL ASK 15 YEARS
FOR RUBIO ATTACKER
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CENSUS COUNT) NOW
HAS 1,035 PEOPLE
RULE AGAINST EDGAR DAVIS
WHO MOVED TO STATE .
FROM MASSACHUSETTS
FEAR PART OF POPULATION
' MAY BE MISSED; REPORT
LAST FOR IB TEARS
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ere refused to talk to the committee, the eonteste. Emil Myers, president
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GREATEST COMPETITION IS
WITHIN OWN BUSINESS,
SPEAKERS CLAIM
LEADERS IN FIVE STATES OF
COUNTRY DOMINATE BY
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Hada Mortal, eolortura soprano, and
Joseph Rosenstein, boy vlolin prod-
iuy, will open thie serles with a
joint recital thie afternoon to the
auditorium at 3:80 a ‘eloek.
Tonight Miss Mortal will give a
fall concert, accompanied by Peel
INDEPENDENTS HAVE GOOD
CHANCE IF THEY USE EF-
ROENT METHODS
GENERAL ASSEMBLY TEACH-
ERS PUPILS AT 8 P. M.
IN AUDITORIUM
LATEST DEVELOPMENT AFTER
ATTACK ON HOOVER’S
CONSERVATION
DECISIONS ARE APPEALED IN
RECENT ACTION; POLICY
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A right-of-way fund of 160,000 will be raised shortly
to procure trackage rights for the Santa Fe line north
through Potter County, if recommendations of the citizens'
---------------------------"committee are carried out.
ROSENSTEIN AND MORINI TO
OPEN CONCERTS THIS
AFTERNOON
VISION OF COMMERCE NEW
EXPORT ROUTE IS GIVEN
AT HOUSTON
Large erowde are hearing Jim
Young in hie campaign epeeches. Ma
frleada in Amari ll« have been ad-
vised. Mr. Toune is a candidate for
governor, and will epeak to Amarile
tonight.
"It probabiy will be Ma eniy Ama-
rille »|M«h of the eampalm," eaid
Loyd Vleteher who to ta Introdue
him. Tor that rear i e Amarille vet-
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RELIGIOUS FANATICS’ CREED
IS AGAINST MEXICO AND
AMERICANS
bende
9. Sbovas emsler around mendh
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NEGRO IDENTIFIED AS
SLAYER DALLAS WORM
government enacted stria
atlons againnt the Catholie
Their organization la phe-
Finds Husband is
“Love Slayer”
AMARILLO-
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vemmittee's report tomorrow to the
Chamber of Commerce directors.
It waa reported yesterday by J.
Ray, chairman, that the eommittee's
prices amount to approximately $36,
000, bat to acme instances the fig-
area were arbitrary prices aot by the
committee and that the total fend re-
quired to all probability weald be
around $30,000.
Three Flat Refusals,
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Several elore "inind 50c t(X five.
many tbhidimgs 1 minute to enjoy the oomfort o this new
tSopsrtuptnirhave. Visit the nearest Gillettedealer today.
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LONDON, April 15,-sigurd Ibsen,
only son of the treat Norwegian
dramatiet Henrik Ibsen, died yester-
7. kupm.aanpn.
e«W demage if dropped
however, are stin available to
every section of the house. Bea-
son tiekets, for the three night
programa, are to he bed for $3.80
and M each. Single admission
ranges from ft to MAS.
• a «*enld hear Mr. Yea Mali
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The committee, named two weeka
ago to iron eat price difterences
with property owners, reported yes-
terdny that it had praetically com-
pleted its work. It has been holding
sessions almost daily daring the two
weeka.
A complete Hat of property owners
along the new line with prices either
agreed upon for the land, or priees
which the committee net as being fair
INTA nARKNF^ guard teeth are rounded back
INIU •AnMeskinmoresmoothly more comfort-
ELECTRICPte, too, that then new bladeends are
___nd. for safer handling with wet fingers.
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While cheering throngs looked on, the eruiser Chicago, Uncle Sam’s
newest fighting craft, shown above, clipped down the ways nt Mare la-
land navy yards. Ban Francieco. The Chicago, second of three mhips or-
derod by Congress throe years ago, coot $10,000,900 and to the largent to
ba launehed on the Pacific coaat in a decade.
Frances Starr, well-known actress,
la to Bono estahlishing a legal real:
dence to get n diveroe from Haakell
Coffin. famous portrait painter end
magazine illustrator. Coffin, admit-
ting in New York that the divorce
waa contemplated, eaye "she’s my
only love and there never will be
another woman for me."
spring
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cTApmve around the tight little corners Si oo
boro woe plunged and ears.
nieht anan.electrdheNew Gillette Razor, 24. gold plated,
Shorty after 8 oclatiful box, and equipped with New Gil- j
thepomacnrdasitawne dollar. The New Gillette Blade is one f
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BO8TON, Maae, April 15-A jury
to Suttolk county superlor court to-
day returned a verdict of $430,87 for
the state to Ite unit for bach income
taxes agaipet Edgar B. Davie, former-
ly of Brockton, Mass., and now of
Lol lag. Texas. The earn represented
$80,000 bach taxes ansessed by the
state and interent chargee.
by rriting even
lookine -4 in
ator. •nger held
A.. Tom dropping. Look
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men: R. L. Faris of Artesia,
and Geerge G Rutherford and
H. MeClennon of Califorhia,
AMarilES Dahy News
Good seats.
WACO. April.1
of an Ineh of rain %
ternoon, with light
central Texas „
reported at Mt.
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trehM between
Mr. Bay eaid, however, is the major
ity of instances priees given in the
report were agrecable to both the
land-owners and the committee.
Right-of-way privileges were given
without cost by a half down prop-
erty owners.
The eommittee, in Ite report to-
morrow, will recommend that the
Chamber of Commerce immediately
rajse a $50,000 fund to pay all conta
of seeuring the right-of-way and de-
livering it to the Santa Fe. The road
will run through Potter county for
approximately >4 miles.
When land-owners were flnt ap-
proached by a committee soveral
weeks age relative to right-of-way
costa, the priees aekod amounted to
$206,000. Reduetions by various land:
owners were announced from time to
time, but whemthe eitizens" commit-
Claude, the first town in the Ama-
rillo eensus distriet to be epumer-
atad in the fifteenth decennial eensun,
eontains 1AM people, according to
an official announement yesterday by
G. Bay Smith, supervisor for the
north 20 counties of the Panhandle.
This eompares with 770 people
shown in the 1920 eensus fiqures,
and 602 in 1910. There are 11 farms
ebown in the results.
Thie figure is preliminary, bet m-
less the people of Claude. If any,
who have not been enumerated man-
age to get eognted it will be final
population and will go on the records.
Those who have not been eowngt
. Van Batwijk, dean of the sehool of
whereitwasunabletoreaeh musie of Southern Methodist Univer
Prema)
At • o'clock thie morning the sev-
enteenth annual Panhandle Made
Festival will start. The greatest
event in the musie year ef Amarille
and the surrounding territory. it has
more than 1,200 entrants in Ito eon-
tests and an artist program which
introduces some of the groatoot
names to the musical world.
For three days the Municipal Au-
dlterium will be swathed in a
maze of musie— piano, violin, vocal
cole, bond and orchestra ensembles
and instrumental solos.
In the afternoons and evenings the
artist recitals will.take place. Rosa-
. (br United Pres)
DALLAS. Tex, April 18.—A
wss identified by Tony Todaro _
as the dayer of hie wife, Irene, dur-
ing n holdup of the little grocery
stars operated by the Todaros on the
night of March M. Todaro epied the
negro on the street and immedintely
summoned police who placed the sus-
pact under arrest. Charges were
withheld pendihe further investiga-
Meg of the cnee.
The ticket board for the Pan-
handle Musie Festival, opening
this morning has been removed to
the ben office at the city audi-
torium, Md tiekets will be avall-
able there through the festival.
With 1,000 season tickets sold in
advance, and a reasonably brisk
sale during ths last two weeks.
Emil F. Myers, director, fa ex-
porting a/good attendanee at the
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A fly cravls vp th*
window gane
With noisily bvrzing
it «ind: ma to the
heart to see
This earliest
(hr The Aasoelated Pree.).
HOUSTON, Texas, April 15. — A
mighty inrush ef commerce from !he
Northern United States will flow
down upon the southwest at the eom-
pletion of tbs’ Mississippi Blvsr Car
nat system, Boy Miller, vice president
of the Intra-Coastal Canal Associa-
tioa of Texas and Louisiana, said to
an address before the second annual
southwest foreign trade eonference
this afternoone
•Ths intimate relationship of the
development of oar inland waterways
to foreign trade, although eelf ev-
dent to He importance. cannot be
over-estimated," Mr. Miller declared.
•A great producing empire which llee
north Md somewhat beyond,the eon-
fines of what we call the southwest,
Md whose prodets should seek an
outlet through gulf ports, for many
years has been isolated from the Gulf
by lower transportation eonts by rail
to the Atlantic seaboard."
“The natural course for the com-
merce of the middlewest, and in fact
fer all of that vast area we call the,
Missimsipvi Valley, Ie southward,
down hill, to the Golf. Indeed, to
earlier days before railroad construe-
tion produced an artificial condition,
the Misisaippi, the Father of Watets,
was the great trunk Hno highway
over which commerce moved from
North to South. Thie maladjustment
to now ia process of correetion
through the improvement for trans-
portation purposes of what to known
as the Mississippi River System. The
great nystem, including ail ef its
adopted projects, more than 70 to
number, win have a total mileage of
approxmately 14AM when completed.
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that the secretory ef the interior
was without authority to withhold
permits and indicated that the pres-
idents oil conversation policy was
mere newspaper gossip. The, acting
xhef Justice referred to Justice
iney's opinion Md declared that
me "concurs both in its reasoning
and in ths conclusions reached by
the learned justice." In addition
justice Siddons pointe out that the
secretary of the interior has con-
zhed the purpose of the congress-
Zal set under which he alleges hs
ie' withholding permits to moon that
he is to give full leeway to the de-
velopment of mineral resoufees.
Like Justice Bailey, acting chief
Justice Siddons held that the act
does not authorize the secretary to
suspend, its operation or dispense
with its execution conferred upon
him. The case ie expected to reach
the Distriet of Columbia court of
appeals within the next month. In
addition to ordering the reinstate-
, ment of the applications for permits,
„ Justice Siddons also ordered secre-
tary of the Interior Bay Lyman Wil-
bur to accept an application for a
permit filed by W. B. Pyran of Loe
Angeles.
In nil the cnses decided eo far.
Secretary Wilbur has declared that
he had discretionary power to ac-
cept or reject applications for per-
mite. Bo alee contended that to
refusing to accept applications far
permits be wae following the orders
of the president. .
Justice Bailey to his opinion, bow.
ever, held that the president's oil
conservation policy had never boon
reduced to writing hot wae merely
statement to newspapermen.
of the Amarillo College of Muste:
sponsor of the artist programs, will
speak.
. Immediately after the short nasem-
bly, the contest will start. The
11year-olds and under of plane de-
partment, with Miss Allie E. Barcos,
teacher of Fort Worth and Chlesgo,
will meet imthe upstairs women's
elub rooms. Supervisors will be
Mrs. Grose Spiller of Canadlan, Miss
Millleent Lahm of Amarille. Mine
Maggie Knight of Childresw; and
HILLSBORO PLUNGE cogSt Thadchueddlonundo
•Spend half your time tending your
own business, end the other half
leaving chain stores alone. Md you
will have nothing to worry about,"
Mr. Thom peon declared.
Tread Bach to Independents.
The trend ef trade today to back
to the independent merchant, Mr. Nel-
eon said, and he advised the retailers
to take advantage of IL
•There never waa a time when sue-
cessful business wae more dependent
upon initiative ability," the spanker
eaid. "There ie a law that governs
good merchandising; it ie not luck.
To get ahead, get u head*; learn te
think. Business depression is largely
la ths mind. There is business out
in the field if you aren't too lazy to
get out and stir it up.
"Waste in investment, space, man-
power and time to year greatest eom
petitor. Buying is u big factor on
which the independent merchant has
Always been wenk. Buy on faets Md
do not 'let your conscience be your
guide.' Stock merchandise for which
there io a quick turnover. Time to
‘really the limiting factor in suecess-
ful business."
Mr. Nelson io eaid to be one of the
best informed dealers of the nation,
and he directed a scathing attack
againnt inefficieney and alack mer
ehandining habits of independent
merchants.
The convention in its busiest ses-
don heard fear outstanding hard-
ware Md Implement men, ineluding
Mr. Nelaon Md Mr. Thompson of the
Texas Md Oklahoma associations,
and A. A. Doerr, president of the Na-
tional Federation of Implement Deal-
era, and Irvin E. Dougias, of the ’Na-
tional Hardware Retailers’ Associa-
tion
Mr. Thompson brought greetings
from the Texas state group, repre
senting the board ef direetora. He is
day to Berlin, the Morning Foot re-
ported today.. He wee 71 years old,
and followed to his tather’s foot-
a-isteps M • plazwright ______
(Ur The Asogiated Ppmo)
EL FASO, April 15.. Bris-
tow, American mining Md oil mon
who arrived ia El Paso today after
being rlensed by bandits, said six
states of Mexico are virtually under
control of a powerful eosret organi-
satian dominated by religious fanat-
tee directly opposed to the exinting
form of government.
Thie barbs ri • organization, demi-
nated by leaders who are intensely
ignorant of Mythlag but the pre-
vincial lives which they know, hove
two policies which they express in
ths form of banditry and destrue-
ties of property." Mr. Bristow eaid.
The first is to tents ths Mexi-
sss government whenever possible.
The eeeond le to interfere with de-
velopment of Mezican industry and
resources et foreignera, espeially
Americana"
•Known as "Crsteros,’ they sprang
into prominenee to 1026 when the
By BASCOM N. TIMMONS
(Special Washington Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, April 11.—On the
heels ef a decision handed down last
week by Justice Jennings Bailey ef
District of Columbia supreme court.
Acting Chief Justice Frederick L
Siddons ef the same court today bach-
ed hie associate, declaring President
Hoover’s oil conservation policy 11-1
legal. The acting chief justice issued ;
mandamus writs in three eases re-
quiring the secretary ef the interior
(^reinstate apulications for permits
dP’prospect for oil, gss and other
Pnerals on the public lands. As to
K‘cases decided by Justice Bailey,
the government has noted an appeal.
’ Tie latest decisiof were handed
2‘7..1
School ehildren may attend re-
cltals by fear internationally
known artists fsr 25 cents, dur-
lug the Panhandle Musto Vestival
acesrding to announcement made
test night by Emil F. Myere, band
of the Amarillo College of Musle,
joint recitals will be given on
the flrot two afternoons it the
festival. Mise Rosalinda Mortal
Md Joseph Rosenatein, boy violin
prodigy, will give the convert
thie afternoon. Cameron McLean,
baritone and Cornellus Vm Vliet,
cellist, will appear tomorrow aft-
ernoon.
The concerts were arranged
primarily for school children and
the contestants, but parenta may
attend far $1 and $i.50.
So""nhe
c.u.
ter began its meetings two weeks
age the tentative coei then stood at ।
around $160,000.
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Ah.
nomenal la its atructure. Seemingly
loose and disjointed, it gains sur-
prising resuits.
'Operating under by-laws sad a
ematitution, it bears a semblanee to
the Ku Kiss Klan but has entirely
different objectives. In the pest
year the Crists res of Nayarit alone
have exaeted IMAM ransom from
Americans and other toreimmers whe "
hsvs attempted to live in that state.
Through M under-cover system. tbs
bandits are able te escertain the fi-
nanelal status of every foreigner that
entero.
•After my release I dincovored that
every move/1 made before capture
was carefully watchod and my pri-
vate affaire thoroughly investigated.
They knew I was able ta pay a ran-
Cree Delgado and hie band. yor-
eigners who are penniless stead an
exeellent chance of toelag their
lives.”
VOL. XXL No. 113.—AMociatai Press Day and Night Leased Wire.
MEXICO CITY, April 15.The fed-
arel prosseutor made knowa today
ta to will askfora sentence of 15
Frare‘ imprisonment againet Daniel
lores, who attempted to assassinate
President Oriis ubia FebrnTy ».
The case will come before the erim-
inyl court May 15.
4 he president was wounded in the
jCw by Flores' bullets and only re-
cently was able to remove the band-
ages swarthing hie face Sonora de
Ortis Babie alee was slightly wound-
sd. They were ebet as they were
driving eat of the National Palace
on the President's Inauguration Day.
Is every person In Amarillo going
to be enumerated to the precoat
census 1
if the combined efforts of the cen-
sas department under G. Bay Smith,
supervisor, and the chamber of eom-
merce will serve to get every nose
counted, then counted they shall be.
The chamber ie going to help in
the count thie week. Thie coarse of
action wm decided upon at n eon-
fereneo yesterday of chamber offi-
dale with Mr. Smith.
To make euro that none are over-
looked, we are asking that mem-
bers of the chamber whe can spare
a few beers on either Thursday or
Friday help In thin big effort to
have eur count as high as possible:
We are appealing to members to call
the downtown office and fat ue know
if they cen help during thie short
time on either of these days," Presi-
dent Tom Cotton eaid yesterday.
"The plan fa thia: for enumera-
item purposes the census department
divided the elty into 18 distrieta with
one enumerator in each district. It
fa the plan ef the chamber ef com-
merce, to co-operation with the cen-
sus department, to make about M
districts of the elty. We will ack
several members to canvass ench dis-
trict to See If anyone has been over-
looked," O. V. Vernon, manager,
stated.
Aetion in Not Critielem
•Our notion la to no way a eriti-
clem of the census department," Cot-
ten emphasized. "We just went to
Unaware of her husband’e erlue,
Mra. Otto Sanhuber, above, lived
happily for ds year as tbs wlfs
of tbs man who ban now eonfessed
the murder of Fred Oesterreleh,
wealthy Les Angeles manufneturer.
Benhuber, whose recent arrent solv
ad the elght-year-old murder mye-
tory, at one Uma. lived to a seeret
compartment of hle vletim’s awa
home, maintaining a "phantom
friendehip" with Mra. Oesterrelch.
elty at Dallas and Hall Axtell, flat-
let.
General Assembly at 8.
A general assembly of all teachets
and contestants will be bold at 8
o’eloek to the auditortom. Mies
Mattle Mao Swisher, president of
tbo Panhandle Made Teachers Asso:
elation, sponsots of the festival, will
preside. Every contestant Ie urged
to ba present for important laei
minute announcementa by Mra.
bxas,
or. K
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aS-M Santa Fe Righbof-Way
as Association, recommended that the w A T a • ' a
County, Estimates
branded a lot of chain etore opposi- • '
tion ee “unacrupulous Md bad form." ------------------
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Declining to eriticize chain store or-
ganizations, Chas. F. Ndeon, Mero-
tary of the Oklahoma Hardware Md
Implement Association, addroedag
hardware dealers ef the Panhandle
yesterday on the subject of oompeti-
tion, turned the searchlight on the
merchandising methods of indepen-
dent merchants.
Tour greatest competition is with-
in your own business," Mr. Nelson
told the dealers, “end’ Ito greatest
factor ia waste. It ie not my inten-
tion to throw "mud’ at the chain
stores. It is a erime to criticize effi-
cieney in any form, and you must ad-
mit that the chain organixation prac-
tice greater efficiency than the aver-
age independent retailer.
“Chain etare competition bee
made better merchants out ef all of
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