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"IT DOESN’T MATTER’
Councilman Monnig ‘in Sur-
prise Move, Backs
Supervisor
1 Mortimer Jones held on to his
job as city gas supervisor today
, when City Manager George D.
1 Fairtrace reversed his yesterday’s
decision to oust the engineer.
: He will remain on the city’s
, payroll for "a few days longer,"
at: the request of City Attorney
: R. E. Rouer, the manager said.
- Mr. Fairtrace dismissed the
. subject of Jones’ employment,
; which flared up anew yesterday,
—by saying: "Mr. Rouer needs him.
1 It doesn’t make any difference to
N me."
, Earlier in the day Mr. Fair-
1 trace had sent the gas supervisor
: to investigate complaints against
, gas service on the South Side, and
1 told him not to worry about how
long his job would last.
a The row took a surprising turn
, today as Councilman William
. Monnig sided: with the gas man
€ and opposed City Manager Fair-
, trace.
Mr. Monnig, who has frequently
, clashed with Mr. Jones in City
1 Council sessions, said he under-
stood, at the time of the super-
visor’s re-employment on Feb. 5,
t that the job was to last for 30
, days.
I* "However, if the city manager
, says that Jones’ job ends today.
P. # then it will end, I guess,” Mr.
" , Monnig added.
# € "Mr. Fairtrace has the author-
#° , ity to fire him any time he wants
to."
E 1 Manager Fairtrace today ruled
5 : that Jones’ term of employment,
# his fourth with the city, ends to-
a i day, while the gas supervisor de-
! Sclares he will hold on until March
• 16—one month from the day be
• , was re-hired by the city after a
S stormy Council session.
= ! City Chemist W. S. Mahlie to-
SEday reported that heating value
• of the city’s gas supply, normally
: about 1010 British thermal units
• at City Hall, dropped to 926 BTU
• for about five hours Thursday.
• The city’s anti-dilution ordinance
• requires 1000 BTU.
• Nitrogen content of the fuel
A rose at the same time from about
• 4 per cent to 11.98 per cent, he
• reported to Mr. Fairtrace.
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
I NEUTRALITY BILL
FDR Acts Few Hours Before
Expiration of Old Act
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. —
President Roosevelt put his sig-
nature today to a revised Neu-
trality Act in which Congress
charted a course designed to keep
the United States out of a foreign
war.
The President acted only a few
hours before expiration of the
temporary law speeded through
Congress last year.
The revised act will be effective
| until May 1, 1937. Efforts to
pass a permanent law this session
collapsed. ‘
Major provisions of the revised
neutrality law:
An absolute mandatory embar-
EO on arms, ammunition and im-
plements of war must be proclaim-
ed by the President.
American vessels cannot trans-
port arms, ammunition or imple-
ments of war to belligerents.
The President may remove pro-
tection of this Government from
American citizens traveling on
belligerent vessels.
Loans or credit extensions to
belligerents are prohibited and
any citizen violating the law
would be subject to a $10,000
fine or five years’ imprisonment
for both. Ordinary commercial
transactions and short-time obli-
gations will be permissible.
Embargoes and other restric-
tions cannot be laid down against
an American republic if it is en-
gaged in war against a non-Amer-
lean nation.
MEAT PRICE WAR ON
IN POLYTECHNIC AREA
e Fort
Orth
Local Forecast: Cloudy Tonight and Sunday.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936
City’s Leap Year Babies Have First Real Birthday
Donald Lewis Peacock
Rosalyn Harvison
William Herbert Rainey
ress
Shirley Faye Lynch
HOME
EDITION
PRICE THREE CENTS
PREMIER IS ALIVE;
TOKIO REGULARS
SMASH REBELLION
Brother-in-Law Sacrificed Own Life to Save
Okada, Believed Dead; Hours of
Pleas, Threats End Revolt
SHELLING OF POSITIONS IS WITHHELD
Grand Chamberlain, Also Reported Slain, Is
Only Wounded; Strict Censorship
Relaxed by Authorities
(Copyright, 1656. by 1 nited Press)
TOKIO, Feb: 29.—Through the fatalistic sacrifice of his
brother-in-law who marched to death in his place. Premier
Keisuke Okada today was alive and at the helm of the govern-
ment in Japan. The revolt has collapsed with the surrender
of rebel troops.
Until Tokio’s internal storm began subsiding today the
secret that two of the chief targets of the assassins were
alive was closely guarded. For coincident with the disclosure
that Admiral Okada had not been unscathed, came the an-
nouncement that Grand Chamberlain Soroku Suzuki, who like-
wise had been thought slain, had only been wounded. His
condition is improving. ,
Repeated threats of shelling, interspersed with pleas in
the name of the rebels’ wife and children and the emperor,
finally broke down the stubborn resistance of the enlisted
men. Orders to blast the men from their barricaded strong-
holds had been withheld because government officials realized
the soldiers in the ranks revolted only in pursuance of a
patriotic ideal, without hope of personal profit or glory.
When assassins surrounded the house of Admiral Okada,
his soldier brother-in-law, Col. Natsuo, walked stiffly into the
garden and presented himself to the execution squad. He
was shot down. His body was guarded for hours in the belief
------------------------------it was that of the premier, who
meanwhile had escaped.
AMELIA’S NAME
IN DIVORCE ROW
They are to celebrate their with a big cake and friends to come in for games. And will they have fun: Well,
It was a little hard to be born on a day that rolls around no wonder. They’vegot to make up for the birthdays -they’ve missed. And it’s
Each of these “leap year Babies” will have a party I going to be a long wait until the next one.
Today’s the "day of days" for these four tots,
first real birthdays.
only once every four years.
TETI , A • C O TALL TY • And They Are Four, Years
Where 8 Main Its Easy;
Just Look For Zilch’s Soap!
Old, But Today Is Big
Day In Lives
City. Manager’s Plan For
Lighted Street Signs
Opens New Field
By DAVE HALL
"Where s Main Street; sonny?"
"Around the corner, mister,
and turn at the Zilch Soap sign."
Thus may Fort Worth’s visitor,
six months hence, drive off look-li
ing for Alighted street marker
advertising Mr. Zilch’s famous
cleansing product.
If he’s seeking Houston Street
—that’s easy, too. "Burp Beer,"
or maybe "Gacapout Gasoline,"
will light the way, wet his whis-
tie or run his auto.
“Jim Wo of — the People’s
Choice" may run for Congress
this season by staying home
nights to read a good book. Light-
ed street signs can electioneer all
night, you know.
They can also sell "Pilsugski’s
Potato Chips," "Sneezo Snuff"
and "Mother’s Safety Mins—Catch
As Catch Can." •
Any number of other advertis-
ing potentialities should be de-
veloped to this plan of City Man-
ager George D. Fairtrace. He
thinks it’s a good way to get the
city some illuminated markers
without straining the municipal
pocketbook.
Advertisers can be induced, he
believes, to erect light standards
bearing the street name and
block number, and—to be sure—
a modest advertisement.
With designs prepared, Mr.
Fairtrace is ready to submit the
proposal to City Council.
1 A meat price war raged around
Polytechnic Addition buteher
shops today.
I Drastic price cuts, ranging to
per cent, became general after
Avenue F and Vaughn Blvd,
stores of the Great Atlantic & Pa-
eific Tea Co. announced reduc-
tions
I A. & P. officials explained com-
petitors in the area had invited
the war by gradual price cutting.
In The Press Today
Barney Baxter......
Bible Contest ......
Clapper ...........
Comics ............
Contract Bridge ....
Country Doctor ....
Crossword Puzzle ...
Cruise to Nowhere ..
Churches .........
Eleanor Roosevelt ...
Heywood Broun ....
Jack Gordon .......
John Flynn ,.......
Letters From Readers
Lockwood on Oil ....
Mrs. Ferguson ......
Radio Programs ....
Special Nurse -
Sports, Pop Boone ..
Side Glances .......
Stories in Stamps ...
Theaters ...........
Today’s Poem .....
Westbrook Pegler ..
Women’s Interest ...
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By TARLETON A. JENKINS
It’s Just Saturday — and the
end of the month — to you.
But to four 4-year-old Fort
Worthers it’s the day of days.
It’s their first honest-to-good-
ness birthday they’ve had in their
whole lives.
That’s right, they’re leap year
babies. They were born on the
last leap year day, Feb. 29, 1932.
Each will have a party today.
5 and 10 Heiress Gains
In Fight Against Death
Countess Barbara Under-
went Operation After Son
Born to Her
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 29. — Countess
Barbara Von Haugwitz-Reventlow,
American heiress, gained slightly
today in her fight for life while
There 11 be a big cake with white, her first-born son lay cooing in
icing and ice cream and candy
and some of their playmates will
come over to congratulate them.
You can't blame them much for
being excited.
*
DONALD LEWIS PEACOCK is
L as tickled as a two-year-old
about prospects for a big day.
There will be a cake and candles.
He isn’t to be deceived, how-
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POLICE ‘BUNGLED,’
HOFFMAN CHARGES
Looking into the proposed
future ... a bright spot" on
the streets of Fort Worth.
STANOLIND OIL, GAS
MOVES STAFF HERE
5 Employes Come From Midland,
One From Beaumont
Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. today
announced closing of its produe-
tion offices at Midland and re-
moval of five employes from that
point to Fort Worth.
Coming here during the week-
end will ‘ be L. E. Sloan, district
superintendent: J. G. Crosskill,
district clerk; K. E. Wooten, dis-
trict engineer: F. M. Robertson,
clerk, and Miss Dorothy Quarrels,
stenographer. .
Geological and exploration of-
fices will be maintained at Mid-
land. -
Paul Mantz Fights Wife’s
Suit. But Admits Being
With Noted Aviatrix
Hence the rebels killed only
| Korekiyo Takahashi, finance min-
| ister: Admiral Viscount Makoto
Satto, lord keeper of the privy
seal; and Gen. Jetare Watanabe,
inspector of general military edu-
cation-or at least they still were
his cradle under heavy guard.
She fought weakly against the
near-fatal strain of an abdominal
operation.
Confident that for the moment
the countess, the former Barbara
Hutton, was improved. Lord Hor-
der. King Edward’s personal phy-
sician, left for his country home
in Buckingham after many long,
anxious visits to her bedside in
her mansion facing Hyde Park.
There was wide sympathy
among Londoners for the young
mother. It was recalled that
| Barbara’s own mother, heiress to
| the great Woolworth fortune, died
| while Barbara was a child; that
Barbara’s first husband, Prince
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 29. —Am-
elia Earhart Putnam’s flying com-
panion and technical advisor,
Paul Mantz, yesterday admitted
journeying to Cleveland with the
noted aviatrix. This disclosure
came at the hearing of his wife’s
contested divorce suit which was
filled with references to Mrs.
Putnam.
Mrs. Myrtle Mantz charged that
her handsome busband frequently
took women friends on air trips,
leaving her behind. Mrs. Put-
nam’s name was injected into the
proceedings by Ella Johnson,
maid at the Mantz home.
“Do you remember on two oe
casions that "Mrs. Putnam spent
the night at the Manta home dur-
ing the absence of Mrs. Mantz,"
asked W. I. Gilbert, counsel for
the wife.
“Yes,” replied Miss Johnson.
“That is, she was there when I
left at night and when I got back
"officially dead."
The severe censorship was re-
laxed when the tension eased.
Martial law headquarters reported
that all but the young army of-
ficers had surrendered peacefully.
M’llnes Drop Phones
Fumio Goto had been made
acting prime minister when Okada
had been reported dead. Em-
peror Hirohito cancelled. Coto’s
temporary commission when Oka-
da appeared to place himself at
the emperor’s disposal, ready to
resign it a new government is
• desired.
Regular, army planes dropped
leaflets addressed to the rebel
non-commissioned officers before
the surrender. Still the troops
refused to evacuate. Threats and
pleas were sent repeatedly. Final-
ly the aviators dropped telephones,
attached to balloons. Through
these the message of submission
was transmitted. ,
Subjugation of the rebels was *
accomplished without "much
bloodshed.” a statement transmit,
ted by the Nippon Dempo News
Agency as from the Japanese war
ministry said today.
Countess Barbara
| Mdivani, was killed in a motor
.. car smash on a road in Spain
Governor Says Trooper In-after their Reno divorce.
| Countess Barbara had spent a
qurry Mere Conferences | fairly good night. Yet there was
By United Press.
TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 29. —
Gov. Harold Hoffman, character-
ized the Lindbergh kidnaping in-
vestigation as “the most bungled
in police history" today and in-
formed Col. H. Norman Schwarz-
kopf, head of the state police, that
he was “not interested in receiv-
ing further weekly reports, simply
indicating that the usual confer-
ences are being held.” .
The governor made public
through his press aides a caustic
letter to Colonel Schwarzkopf in-
spired by newspaper reports that
the fourth weekly state police re-
port on the renewed inquiry into
the abduction had been marked
by attempts to bribe state troop-
ers.
Prosecutor Anthony Hauck,
who aided in the trial prosecu-
tion, came to the offices of the
attorney general here to seek ad-
vice on defense demands that he
start bribery proceedings against
Millard Whited, who testified he
saw Bruno Richard Hauptmann
near the Lindbergh estate.
| no doubt as to the seriousness of
| her condition. She gave birth to
her 7 1-2-pound son Monday. (Ac-
cording to two London newspa-
pers. a Caesarian operation was
necessary). Thursday she was
operated on for an abdominal ob-
struction. Yesterday her condi-
tion grew so grave that at one
time three physicians were at her
bedside constantly."
In 1934 Barbara, then the Prin-
(See picture on Page 2).
THE WEATHER
Big Leap Year.
Derby Won by
Willis Smith
He’s ‘Junior’ and Second
Arrival Is Son of
K. C. Smiths
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in the morning” _______._______—__.___
Paul Richardson, a friend of. reaction means that Hirobito, em-
the Mantz couple, testified he had peror of 90,000,000 Japanese and
been present during quarrels be- subject peoples, definitely: has de-
tween-the engineer and his wife eided to continue his polley of
over the number of times "Mrs encouraging westernization of his
Putnam had dined there and
Mantz was said to have admitted
Crushing of the militar? insur-
she was there a number of times.
Mrs. Mantz introduced into the
evidence a telegram she pur-
portedly received from her hus-
band saying, “plan trip to Cleve-
land air races with A. E. and Al
Manasco to meet Mr. Putnam at
| Bendix on business. Lots of love
and kisses and happy birthday."
When called to the witness
stand, Mantz replied in answer to
First honors in Fort Worth’s
Leap Year baby derby went to lit-
tie Willis Mullins, Jr. at 1 a. m
today. He was born in Methodist
| Hospital, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Mullins Sr., of 2248 Syl-
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Weighing in at six pounds and
one and one-half ounce, he was
more than three ahead of [
FORT WORTH AND VICINITY Cloudy
tonight and Sunday minimum tempera-
ture tonight 48 to 54 degrees
EAST TEXAS Cloudy tonight-and Sun-
day occasional trains on west coast to-
night and in southeast portion Sunday:
slightly warmer in northeast and central
portions and on east coast tonight
empire, informed observers stated.
Abandons Ancient Role
The emperor, abandoning the
ancient role of rulers of Nippon
in which they were symbols of
authority delegated to others
rather than active rulers in .per-
son, has come forward as his
% question about whom he ad-
companied to the air races:
“Miss Earhart and Al
asco.”
Man-
“own man on horse-back."
It long has been the contention
of the extremist elements that
the army always has the right to
act as a super-government of the
empire in times of emergency.
This themta the emperor now bold-
ly has challenged.
If events follow the trend tn-
dicated today it is believed prob-
able that Premier Okada vill re-
CONTRACTS OKEHED
State PWA officials today ap-
proved contracts on the Frontier
Centennial rodeo building and
foundation’ for the Memorial
Tower, authorizing work orders
on both. Thomas S. Byrne has
the rodeo building contract for
$69,250. The memorial tower
foundation contract went to But-
cher and Sweeney for -$6400.
Time
Midnight
1 a m. .
m :
s a m.
10 # :
1 a m.
12 Noon...
1 p m. :
p.
TEMPERATURES.
4 Years Ago
YearsAgo Yesterday Today
Maximum. ........8:
Minimum A
Run rises tomorrow
88
. 53
at • 59 sets
Start A Centennial Sera
OK
15 WORKERS CUT qixn and that a stop-gap resimen.
FROM RELIEF STAFF possibly a “ council of state" -
pIAFT will be created to "handle affairs
normally delegated to the cabinet,
for the next few months.
[Aftenn. Tarrant County relief
his nearest rival. The runner-up aides, three of them case workers.
at 6.26 ucts.
was the son of Mr and Mrs. K. C.
Smith of Arlington, who was born |
at 4:19 a. m. in the same hospital. |
The Smith boy took some con-
solation for his later arrival in
the fact that he was slightly
more than two pounds heavier
than the winner.
Both babies and their, mothers
were doing fine this morning, |
| nurses said. Four years will
elapse before the boys have their
| first anniversary,
SUBSIDY ON wHEXr
WASHINGTON, Feb 29-----
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
Wallace today invoked his hither-
to unused power of employing up
to 30 per cent of customs re-
ceipts to develop foreign markets
for American agricultural prod-
today drew their last pay checks
from Mrs Anne Twiss, district
administrator of unemployable
relief.
A reduction of
$3000 per
month in the relief agency’s budg-
et for administration forced the
dismissals, Mrs. Twiss said.
One clerk was dropped in Wise
Gounty.
I The next step indicated would
be a move to abolish the extra-
constitutional system to enable
the emperor to have a unified
government and to abolish the
“dual diplomacy." which so em-
barrassed him during the Man-
churian war and ended In Japan’s
virtual expulsion. from the League
of Nations.
MAD Doas BITE NINE
GREENVILLE, Tex.; Feb. 29.,
Nine Greenville residents were un-I PEIPING, Feb. 29.—Police be-
der treatment for rabies today | sieged Tsinghau University to-
after being bitten by mad dogs.
Ml DEN Is AT PEIPING
BEAT OFF 100 POLICE
He
Eight of them were victims of
the same animal. Dr. L. E. Gee,
county health officer, said the
new eases brought the total to 30
within a month, as dogs in the
Greenville area became infected
night after an unsuccessful at-
tempt to arrest 100 nationalist
vith a sudden epidemic of rables.motor truck.
students. The student body as
a whole came to the nationalists”
rescue, beat the 100 police who
tried to arrest them, drove off
the invaders and wrecked a pollen
The Press Will Start a Daily Centennial Scrapbook Page Monday
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