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Tuesday Evening, November 1, 193
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ON PLEJ
Corn Granaries
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ON LEGISLATIVE PROMISE—
Specter of Rail Walkout Disappearing
Leaders Rush
Plans to Settle
tribute some in relief channels and
Reporter Calls
What's Left When a Locomotive Blows Up
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laying of a
revealed today
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vision plant before they had an opportunity to change their working
TO BE REAL
ack into the heavily-gdarded fed-
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FUNDS RUNNING LOW— ________________ ■ _
Attempt to Stifle Inquiry Charged by Dies
Republic Steel
Evicts Strikers
Overflowing as
Loans Fall Due
of horror, Katherine
decided to find out.
in this paper
November 4
Weatherby Heads
Abilene Teachers
Further Reducations
In Relief Rolls Seen
CIO Official Charges Uprising Inspired
By 'Hired Gangsters' to Prevent Return
Snodgrass Funeral
Held at Coleman
00 Farmers Hear
McDonald Plan
fessor.
State
Retail Clerks End
Prolonged Strike
You'll find a mystery
story with a surprit-
ing twitt, in—
To Halt Child Marriages—
KENTUCKY MOVES TO DEAL STERNLY WITH PARENTS HUSBAND OF TEN-YEAR OLD
In excellent shape The gas Une
Inspection of schools has been an
annual occur rence since the New
Abilene Rebekahs
To Miles Tonight
Texan, 125 miles southeast of Han-
kow, after more than three months
clothes
Damich sax! the uprising was among employes who did not partici-
Jeweler and O
IM Pine
ding
lude
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the
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discuss differences, and allowed an
arbiter to make final decisions.
Plumbing Inspector
Busy Past Month
lectures
tonight.
Bl
On
2nd St
Between
Cvpress
n
Phone
5388
WPA jobs th September —76 per cent
of them voluntarily and most to ac-
cept private employment—compared
with 194,500 in August.
"OVER A Q1
CENTUI
| Frank Howard, city plumbing and
gas inspector. made 124 gas inspec-
sentence in the s
" pleaded self defens
the trial.
On the stand h
love for Virginic.
of Homer F Wilcc
IT PAYS
To Advertise
In This Newspaper
The Abilene Reporter-News
4 youths who were i
namer’s "high hat
committed suicide.
Rebuttal Speaker—
Says Truth Hurt
By Manipulation
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। Thirty-three dollars in fines was
meted out by Judge E M Overshin-
throughout the nation. He will also
bring along a motion picture pro-
jector to show pictures of the Inter-
national meeting. the Boston head-
quarters and other Endeavor event*
4
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sicm_
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B G Boughtin former pre
o! salesmanship a t,Lquisianh
university, opened a series of
DR. BEATRICE
NISBET
Has Moved Her Office
And
TERPIZONE CLINIC '
To 3266 South Seventh St
Use TERPIZONE For
Hay Fevr—Asthma and T. B.
Chiropractc and Scientific
Massage
Tune In On KRBC
Labor Relations board order.
B J Damich. field director of the steel workers organizing com-
mittee asserted the men were driven from Republics Upson Nut di-
a3
tring I
eral court room
tinued to selec
so far. far that there is no I
reason to get worried about it."
e
1 k SOTIE-
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1 to Two
whose terms are trrent
rp Door
manship lectures at Hotel Won’
Last night Approximately 75 Abile
Sun Electric.
county, sparsely -set tied mountain
mining district. The ofifcers brought
them to the county jail here.
The husband. Fleming Tackett.
24 a miner, who married Rosie a
week ago. had fled. Deputies sought
him in the hills in northern Floyd
county on a warrant issued by
Judge Hill charging "rape of a
child under 14"
Co. Atty Forrest D Short filed
school journalism instructor. sec.
Harvy ‘Bailey.
Alpine Wins Next
Legion Convention
MIDLAND Nov. 1— (SpD— Mem- i
bers of the American Legion of the I
16th district, department of Texas,
ended a two day convention here
Sunday afternoon selecting Alpine
as the s:t« for the spring meeting
tentatively scheduled to be held in
May. 1939 G. Ward Moody. Odes-
sa, presided at the business sessions
of the convention.
More than 100 legionnaires and
auxiliary members participated in
the conclave held here Sunday ac-
tivities included a memorial service
at the First Presbyterian church,
barbecue at Cloverale park and an
afternoon business session. A dance
ond vice president, Mrs
CLEVELAND, Nov. 1—(P— A CTO official said some Republic
Steel corporation employes ejected today from a Republic plant 46 strik-
ers who were called back to work under terms of a recent National
itentiary for incorrigibles. and dur-
ng a futile escape plot last May
WASHINGTON. Nov 1-(UP)-
Acting Works Progress Administra-
tor Aubrey Williams today predict-
ed material reductions in the record
work relief rolls if conditions in ag-
ricultural areas do not offset gains
tn industrial employment
He attribtted to industrial revival!
the fact that 228,000 persons left;
man. Gorrell he
ceived a plot to ex
her father on a
her. He said he hi
and that they wr
note together in 1
that his purpose in
to thwart the plani
The Thanksgivin
ed he said when
that he no longer
ticipate in the plo
to expose it. Kenns
menaced him with
the ensuing scuffl
gun and fired it t
head
Kennamer also t
had often plotted
and that he once
him out of an air
failed, ha said, whe
able to secure a pl
sas City airport
Miss Wilcox, w
committal throug
later married.
Since Gorrells (
Wife to Accompany
Arctic Ice Explorer
HOLLYWOOD. Nov 1—i0P-
Hi* pretty blonde wife will goalohg
when Capt. Sir George Hubert WI
kin* makes a sumbarine voyage un-
der the Arctic ice floes next spring.
ady have been suppoened by
government One ol them is the
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Three men were killed. the boiler was hurled 300 feet, rails were torn up and a great hcie dug in the
road bed when a railroad locomotive exploded between Elgin and Almora, Ill. The above picture
shows the tangle of twisted and broken metal that was left when the locomotive of the Chicago, Mil-
waukee, St. Paul & Pacific railroad let go with a roar. A fireman, an engineer and a brakeman died
in the wreckage.
Tanner and C J Rhode* Other,
a e
unions to stage
installation of equipment on a sub-
marine „gcaigned especially to navi-
gate under ice floes
OKLAHOMA
g prison routine wa
" a fast life among
convicted of the si
.it was a plea
namer, that result
pardon and parol
Kennamer s p
9 The Judge, noted
mer’s health was
on a trip to Arizo
attempt to regain
SANITY TEST FI
The board stipul
€ mer first must un
t-appointed defense attorneys
old —Fau kner and- ’ ’ sephiLI
a.gvestion.m, zhe me
Experimenters s
types of shark liv
to be almost seven
4 a source of vitimt
cod liver oil.
rented a
•Republic officials made no imme4 . r - .
diate comment on today* incident LOSS Or I elan
try stocks, was 600 per cent greater back to farmers for feeding, to du-(
than a year ago and the largest for ‘
Who was the strange
woman on the bal-
PRESTONSBURG. K} Nov 1—[
(UP— Kentucky took stern meas- |
ures today to dissolve the marriage
of 10-year-old Rosie Columbus
Tackett, as evidence for the back-
They are charged w
oyal M Cline. guard s'
GRUEN, B
HAMILTON,
HELBROS a 1
amination to ete
is mentally fit to
as the sanity test
W. Marland will ।
sanction to the it
board will select i
with Kennamer ui
prison.
John Gorrell,
youth who was
in a quarrel on
eve, 1934, wept b
testified before
terday. He conte
namer had “not
time to pay for
Uken."
Kennamer, ser
in which Convict Thomas R
retary: Fred - McKinzie, College
Heights teacher, treasurer.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 — (UP)
—.American Federation of Labor re-
tail clerks early today abandoned
their 55-day strike against 35 lead-
ing department stores and returned
to work The decision came on a
vote, 1.068 to 1,014. to sign an agree-
ment with the San Francisco retail- i
ers‛ council
Larry Vail. union secretary, said
the agreement did not provide for
the union shop but provided for
“continuation or improvement of
all contract provisions in last year s
agreement "
Terms of the settlement provided
for all strikers to register for work
with the stores and return to their
former posts as rapidly as possi-
ble ’ They also embodied a seniority
in the net congx- ■
These considerations were said
to be pushing the rail executive*
toward a cancellation of the pay
cut notice effective December 1.
1 The adverse report of
Roosevelt* emergency fact-
finding board. which held the
wage reduction proposal un-
justified
2. The threat of rail labor
Anderson said the committeeP
used an "extraordinary pres-
enution and manipaltion ot
witnesses" for political effect.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 1—
er In corporation court, today
Two youth* were fined 91 each for
trespassing on city flower bed* Two
men, charged with drunkenness,
were fined 85 each A second of-
fender charged with drunkenness
was fined 110
A woman charged with vagrancy
wa* fined *10
A woman who pleaded guilty to a
fight In a public place with another
woman waa fined 11
tional Christian Endeavor conven-
tion in Australia, will speak tonight
at the First Christian church HI*
address will begin at 7:45 o'clock
Mark* la to give an inspirational
address concerning the work and
progress of Christian Endeavor
.Phil
(AP)—Chairman Dies (D-Tex)
said today the house committee
on un American activities may
have to end its hearings soon
because its $25000 expense
fund, is running loy.
-Since President Roosevelt an
members of his administration
have taken some verbal digs at the
ridicule and misrepresentation." *
By arrangement of the d^mocra-1
1 de nattonal committee Paul Y
I Anderson Washington correspond-
ent of the St Louis Star-Times
followed Dies on the air.
Anderson said he had seen some
“slip-shod and “shockingly un-
fair" congressional investigaions
but declared none had approached
the Dies committee s hearings in
either of those respects . •
WpaN
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L MyBRi
L 8VJANSON
The Abilene Rebekah degree team
will go to Miles tonight where it
will assist in the organization of a
Rebekah lodge
Mrs M M Madison of Sweetwa-
ter. wife of the incoming grand
master of Texas: will be in charge.
A staff from the san Angelo lodge
will install officers.
Those planning to- make the trip
from Abilene are Mrs. H c Archi-
bald. Mrs J. F Smith,. Mrs. Odis
Claxton. Mrs. F. A Loofbourrow,
Stella McCleskey, Lola Higgins,
Beulah Ward, Louise Fredeck, Mrs
Jess Higgins, Elizabeth Kretzmyer,
Minpie Wilson and Ida Mae Doug-
lass.
All school inspeCT-
thHad’lost edbyHoTaETTETeTFrTT
to store some for normal mer-
chandising later. Com not turned
over to the government for ship-
ments may be fed or resealed on
new loans at 57 cents a bushel,,
sever cents over the old rate. The"
government expects to lend mony |
on possibly as much as 300,000,000
bushels of 1938 corn.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1—(P—Gran-
aries throughout the farm belt were
unusually well stocked with corn
today as government loans to 49,-
000 farmers on almost 48,000,000
bushels fell due.
Visible supplies at terminal cen-
ters increased 7,946,000 bushels last
week as old and new corn poured
into the provincial markets. Heavy
marketing of old and new corn at
the same time is unusual in the
grain trade. The total U. S. visible
supply of 24.674,000 bushels, while
not large in comparison with coun-
SAN FRANCISCO Nov 1— P—
Attorneys defending two Alcatraz
convicts on murder charges in the
Wage Dispute
. ; hill folk that the state will not
Goal Is Beginning tolerate child brides
r n County Judge Edwin P Hill er-
Or Joint urogram a dered Rosie and her mother, Mrs.
For Rehabilitation Grace Columbus.to appear 115 court
. today for arraignment.
' A
— cony ? Was she beckon-
■ Don Weatherby, high school
ounded and Lucas cowed . .
In advance of testiznony, the
ing, or desperately
aald. was establtahed south of Telan taled Ninety-eight plumbing
to protect Nanchang, the Chinese inspections were made
air base. - ■ 9 '
The Japanese drive continued I Ernest E. Marks to
Speak Here Tonight
COLEMAN, Nov. 1—(Spl —ru-4
neral for Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth
Snodgrass, 87, resident of Coleman
county for 12 years, was held
3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at Glen
Cove, with Forrest Waldrop. min-g
ister of the Coleman Church on
Christ, officiating.
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Snodgrass
was born in White county, Tennes-
see. on October 1, 1851. She died,
at the home of a son, Walter Snod-
grass. In the New Central com-j
munity, Saturday.
Mrs Snodgrass was a member of J
the Church of Christ. She was the
widow of the late D. C Snodgrass.
Survivors include, one brother, W.
B Gilles of Arkansas: one sister,,
Mrs. Eph Alexander of Tennessee
two sons, Henry Snodgrass of Abi-
lene and Walter Snodgrass of New
Central; 14 grandchildren and 30
great-grandchildren.
dared that
mittee- in line with the expr
omestic allotment plan would —--—---------------------------
Spanish insurgents
rmprzram He -i Claim More Gains
AA program_____HNDAYE Fench-spanisn Fron-
they hoped to raise strong doubts
whether the right men had been
charged •
The defehdants James G Lucas
and Rufus Franklin, long-tm pris-
oners on rthe rock were ordered
Lady Suzanne Wilkins arriving
from Australia was resting today
at the home of movie star Basil
Corporation Judge
neked. Im just here to fatten up/Metes Out Fines
for t n>4qn. , "7
We willleave"fromsNew York'n —
March Sir Hubert is directing the
OUT OF GAS? GOT A FLAT?
BATTERY DOWN?
DIAL 7267
GEO. MORRIS AUTO SUPPLY
er Nov 1—UP Spanish nation-
Eastland Chamber
Elects Officers ing foothills toward the Ebro riser
ZMTi .aKti nn i— Rn*__g,. in-Eas ern Spain after capturing the
ecSdomces of the EstiandCabalisane san Mareo his from
meyearsaannounea today. T atit artillery. .hiumg dhaiuretnn;
, officials were T wasmakngi dincult for he loyal-
- 4 Rispardson presder-' O E ists to bring up suppiles to their'men
tarvey, farst 'l®* president: C T on the right 'southern* bank of the
■Hi se' ■' MM, and niver. •
t J Tanner secretary-manager. -----------,-----
Directors.reelected wore Ear Radio How Venerable
Foody. Albert Taylor, Harvey, K
WASHINGTON Nov. 1—.
(UP)—Possibilities of a na-
tionwide railroad strike dimin-
ished today as it became ap-
parent rail, executives would
abandon their demands for a
15 per cent wage cut in re-
turn for administration support
of broad rail aid legislation.
Management leaders rushed plans
for settling the controversy with
their 960.000 workers.
Presidents Of the 139 class'1 rail-
roads were summoned to a special
meeting in Chicago at 10 o clock
Friday morning to decide whether
to abandon the pay cut fight.
THREE FACTORS
It was indicated unofficially that
they would do so in order that
work may begm at once on a joint .
iwqnageir.ent-labor program for re-
habilitation which President Roose- *
velt’s administration will support
of bitter fighting in which both------------- ----- ---
sides lost heaviy. London school blast disaster
Japanese la week announced Twenty-nme plumbing permits
capture of-the town, but today was were -issued. Receipts were _$9425.
the first definite admission by the. Sixty-two gas permits were issued
China forces | for $62 3®
The new line of defense, Chinese New fixtures placed on sewers to-
Rosie will be taken before a
juvenile branch on a charge of
delinquency and "growing up in
idleness and crime." Mrs. Co-
lumbus faced arraignment on
a charge of "eonsprracy to com-
mit rape "
- Repair ah^nffs_scued they late
yesterday as- they attempted to
flee from, the cabin-home of rela-
tives on Barnett's creek in Johnson
Dr. John T. Arnold
Registered Chiropodist
PRACTICF LIMITED TO
FOOT
Lurline Bids Phone 4083
Pine at Third Abilene, Texas
dio had reched a venerable stage president of the Abilene unit of
Ire ym H „ c. --- toda-the museum. The Smithson- the Texas State Teachers associa-
8 Ha • f a / PEn ° ian institution annoimced it had Don in a city-wide faculty meeting
irT HPealser.Bsnde.) Milbum received a series of microphones, in- yesterday afternoon
r s " 4 St Rich- eluding that used in the first broad- Other officers elected were J O
II° i FranK T. Crowe*] cast from-he National Broadcasting Ba'lew Lamar principal firs’ vice
"" I company. _3i । president. G. W. Haggard, high
a petition with Hill last night for
annulment of the marriage. Hill
expressed his approval
“An example should be set
in this case," he said. “It
should be an example for the
people in the mountains."
Rosie and her mother said they
did not know where Tackett had
gone They were noncommittal
about their arrest
Mrs Columbus told officers she
had not ’ pushed'’ the marriage.
“They been courtin's for a
long time,” she said. “They
wanted to marry and I couldn't
stop them. \
“Rosie was so took with
him." she said, “she told me she
would jump in the well less I
got the license. She run to-
ward it, but I caught her."
, committee. Dies was none too1
hopeful of getting more cash after
congress m I
PROBE CALLED SLIPSHOD'
The $25 000 would have gone far-
ther' the chairman indicated m a
radio address last night had gov-
ernment departments supplied law-
yers investigators stenographers
: and clerks in accordance with the
house resolution ordering the in-
vestigation *
He said however, that ap-
peals to the Justice and Labor
departmenu, the WPA. and
finally to the president had
brought no result.
In fact, he added. Secretary
Perkins and Secretary nf In-
terior Ickes joined “certain
radieal writers' in a campaign
"to discredit the com mi ter by
salespeople attended
Second of the tens of
wilf be given a* 8 o clock
Tuesday E
MERKEL Nor I- Approximately de-p
200 farmer- heard virtues of therorenc gg.
proposed dome rig allotment plan .
■plained here yesterday afternoon i ’ w \ Em. •
tan address by J E McDonald in Nidd.a achelor,*az prominent
itate commis v of agriculture dent o opert i2 An inderen-
The commissioner drove here theppr. _‛n 4s active in
trom Austin and contnued-has ivedrEnadanasinrelda. He. had
Maney to the Panhandle area and was a member 0 mce
"herehecreshacampaimn; Lectures Tonight
opuon o me plan ne naa aa- 3 1
cocated lor 4 1-2 years noth of Joplin, Mo Mineral ri
MeDonale sald he beileved th. pending Eamare
PARENT
’ BITTER I
—suaxonatNor
the date sence 1934
Country elevators, too, bulged
with corn and farmers throughout
the belt hastened construction of
new cribs. Lumber dealers reported
brisk demand for materials.
Corn is selling in Chicago at ap-
proximately 45 cents, near the low-
est price level in almost five years.
The latest figures on old corn
supplies on farms showed approxi-
mately 350,000 000 bushels of 1937
crop grain has not been fed or i
marketed The amount on loans
was scarcely 14 per cent of this
total a year ago. Old stocks on
farms total only 60.000.000 bushels
The 1938 supply is double that of .
the average in any of the past ten !
years.
Uncle Sam is owner of part of the I
old com now crowding storage and 1
transportation facilities. How much
has been defulted on loans, how-
ever. could not be determined.
The Commodity Credit ’ corpora -
lion expects to sell some corn
I strike if the cut is made ef-
| fective.
X Roosevelt s offer to sup-
I port contractive rail legislative
proposal* in the next congress.
H A Enochs, chairman of the
carriers’ joint conference commit-
tee, which conducted the wage ne-
gotiations on behalf of all the rali-
roads, indicated that the pay pro-
posal would be shelved when he de-
Penney Co Minters Grissom’s, The
Pop liar, Montgomery Ward. Sears
Roebuck & Co Western Chevrolet.
Campbell s, Allison-Steven Motor
company and a number of real es-
tate firms.
uca SWEETWATER Held Still Open
rhe l” neys secured habeas of nere etc ' *^7^ ?1 PITTSBURGH Nov.1P—CI
-— i, • on. \, ; * .. death x O leaders, reluctant to discuss it-
from to.°2im and Tava aorqidand *ue« of their f°r.fwomin*rir»t con-
-we- 20- -uc-nr, -m. tha-absence.of.a.state-
TwinEsi 0 *’r persons. ment by GenenlMuno John L.
co -rrayeung alone n * sedan Lewis said anformally today they did
Coed wtn * coupe driven by consider the door to peace with the
mn. accompanted by 1A F of L. «UU open
ps"ue “ ana n sster Pharene -In fact almoat anything can
E sudent of East Texas happen after the delegates gather
W . C ners colieee Commerce hereNovernberK.'Jmehlghexecu-
viwumeaxanstar ■; killed andtive said We certainly haven t from the captured tri-city area of(
er MrV 12 i.nazr in * hospital slammed the dw to peace Hankow, Hanyang and Wuchang *
n ypzant. surfered chest Another prominent leader said it with one column reported to have I__
• • a... M vnzant received appeared to him the cementing to- occupted Hanchwan 60 mile* by riv- Ernest E Marks national field
and gether of » compact prganuation 1 10 me . Hanvang secretary of the Endeavor who re-
souid estabish a group which could 1 J] ' 8 ■ centiy returned from the interna-
more readily becomhe a part of 1 ——— --------
federation than the present cog
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■regardless of the damage the
truth suffers m the process.-
hand, thatendedpean the other pate in the 1937 steel strik, and declared it waa anspired by "hired
arge were -8anameh saa the M were return-
ma* neaninEs rad an Invita- ing to *ork under NLRB's October
ton to appear before the commit- 19 ruling which ordered Republic, r.dba.t. pa-
• to reinstte 5 000 participant* in the Ledbetter .Fau. Park teacher, sec-
tstrike against "little steel" The
company previously* said it was re-
hiring strikers as business war-
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