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10,1935
WED
13.—Gov.
sighed the
swing nud-
Supported
Alfred E.
of Decency
nisdemean-
T
ort Worth Press
Local Forecast: Mostly cloudy, probable local showers tonight, Wednesday.
SCRIPPS-HOWARD
VOL 14, NO. 192
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1935
SENATE SPURNS
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CITY DARKENED AS
TORRENTIAL RAIN,
HAIL STORM RAGES
Shop Windows Blown In and Streets Flood-
ed; Arlington Heights Power Line
Goes Out; Trees Damaged
■ - A terrific downpour of rain, pushed by a 50-mile gale,
struck Fort Worth shortly before 1 p. m. today, plunging the |
city into semi-darkness, flooding streets and spreading dam-
age and alarm.
S. P. Schmitt, 3409 West Fifth St., dropped dead at the
Hodgkins Store, Lake W orth, five minutes after the storm I
broke. He was 70..
He was seated on the store porch reading a book when |
he collapsed.
There was hail dow ntown. ,
The storm rode into the downtown district on a swirl-
ing, black cloud that swept across the top stories of sky-,
scrapers, dashing the streets,below with rain and hail.
M ringside and the southeast section of the citv re-
ported heavy hail.
ntown visibility was reduced to less than a block
Tops of the city’s highest buildings couldn't be seen.
WOMAN 10 00
WUMAN Io JOhU
AUTO FATALITY
and Houston, and n w i u 1 H I n ui I I
Leonard Bros., First and Houston, -
SES
p of a ige tree at the City
Hallwastorn-our by the—gale.--
Darkness in Heights.
out of commission in many places
the Arlington Heights district and
homes in the iversidedistrict
were plutiged into darkness"
Downtown high buildings and
Texas Electric Co officials an-
nounced they were swamped with
American Airlines reported
heavy thunderstorms to the north
and west Of Fort Worth.
A transcontinental plane, en-
Mrs. L. P. Perkins Killed
In Auto Crash: 1-Year-
Old Child Unhurt
Police Homicide Officers A C.
Howerton and I) S Harris today
were investigating an auto crash
which last night killed a mother
as she rode will her husband and ,
-t their one-year-1
TRAFFIC
DEATHS
This Year
HOME
EDITION
PRICE THREE CENTS
JEQTICATI
f to ! luA I II
T. C. U. JOURNALISM STUDENTS IN CHARGE OF ALL PRESS EDITIONS TODAY
Carl Maxwell Rosemary Collyer Grate Maloney
Elizabeth Huater Dorio Perry
These budding young news writers from the TCU journalism
department bring you your Press today. They took over the entire
editorial side, showing Press “pros" a few tricks. The “big shots"
of the day were Ben Sargent, editor-in-chief (lower left photo).
and Raymond Michero (right), city editor. Mr. Sargent's bustling
ILEY LONG FIGHTS
LOSING BATTLE TO
PROVE FRAUD CAS’
Violent Debate Ended by 62 to 20 Vote In
Which Kingfish Casts Only Demo Vote
For Resolution; Submits Affidavits
By United Press. ' t ,
WASHINGTON, May 14.—The Senate today rejected
Huey Long’s demand for an investigation of Postmaster Gen-
eral James A. Farley.
The Senate acted after more than a day of violent debate
in which Mr. Long hurled new charges of fraud and manipu-
lation against Mr. Farley.
In refusing to investigate Mr. Farley the Senate followed
the recommendation of its Postoffice Committee, which
brought in a report declaring Mr. Long had failed to con-
vince the committee he had sufficient evidence to back up
his charges......
° Senator Long was the only Democrat to vote for his
resolution but he changed his vote for the purpose of moving
for reconsideration.
The effect was lost, however, when Majority Leader
Joseph T. Robinson moved for reconsideration of the vote by
I which the resolution was rejected and Sen. Kenneth McKel-
| lar (D., Tenn.) moved to lay that motion on the table. •
1-+ It was a parliamentary move
frequently used by Mr. Long but
1 this time worked against him. Mr.
McKellar’s motion was adopted
99
Ju
■
at. 10:30 a
turned back and
here
I Amarillo its, early morning ship
I toward Fort Worth.
■ Ml Bowen ships were operating
Same Date
Last Year. 21
old child — en |
route to Meth-
odist Hospital ■
to visit a rel-
ative:
The victim.J
Tarrani Coun- |
ty’s 33rd auto
fatality of the
year, was Mrs.
L.P Perkins.
28, of 8 2 4
RES
snatched up from
smashed show windows by
the
Haynes St She suffered a frac-
tured skull. .
The husband, a shoe salesman,
has several broken ribs and a
fractured ankle.
The child, Leslie Frank
raped injury.
S P Seawright Jr., 17.
C
SES
of blouses!
frilly styles
s Sizes 34
ed
CS
Yd.
C
randard size
ch ecru and
ires in fancy
ie. An excep-
iversary Sale
LETS
Pr.
AMARILLO DUE
by a voice vote.
.The only other Democrat to
staff is show n in the group picture above. They are Carl Maxwell, | |93b SESSIUN support Burton'K OllM DMA:
assistant sports editor: Rosemary Collyer, assistant society editor; 1 U U V 01891N Senator Rurdr not"vote butwas
Grace Maloney, copy desk: Elizabeth Huster, reporter; Doris Perry, . . — - Month dnotasnouneed that
reporter: Genevieve Papineau, reporter; Elizabeth Glover, reporter; Wichita Falls Also Strong I in nad voted he would have
Jones Bacus, amusements editor. Contender For W. Texasvoted for the resolution.______________
DOntcnacr. TOT. TACO Produces Affivadits
Genevieve Papineau
Elizabeth Glover
Jones Bacus
1936 SESSION
Chain Letter Racket Zooms
Here; 2 Arrested For Sales
Oklahoma Officials, On Vacation in Fort Worth Launch
- Largest Offices Here; Other Establishments
Mushrooming Throughout City
I wind, littered streets.
I A half dozen jail windows and
I a door to the Criminal Courts s. n Seawright Jr . 17, 3214
I Building blew in Bideker St., driver of the other
■ police headquarters was buried auto, has a concussion With
■—-------e-H-of vedwires and tree-young Seawright were his: sister,
I blocked streets Letha Bell Seawright, 15; Dennis
I Fo!e» crashed at Shaw and Tidwell, 21, of 3231 Bideker St.,
■ Henderson Sts. bringing the-wires and his sister, Marie Tidwell, 16.
I down Live wires were reported swerves into Yard.
I down on the 1500 block of East The girls were treated at a
I Lancaster and at Rio Grande and nearby home for cuts. Tidwell
1 Ballinger. was not hurt Prortino Not I
I A frame church building under. Seawright’s auto swerved into Here onow FTacuce NOT
I construction in the 2900 block the yard of a residence after the
I East Belknap St., collapsed, crash, at Avenue H and Mackey
Trees in the 1800 block of St.
I Lipscomb St anil 800 block of By a twist of irony, a Shannon
I West Third St were menacing ambulance took Mrs. Perkins to
I traffic the hospital to which she had
■ The City Park Department re- started to visit her husband’s sis-
I ported hundreds of trees down in ter, Mrs. Novelle Caviness, who
I different parts of the city, many 1 terwent an operation there last
1 lying In streets. Limbs, heavy week.
I with foliage, were split from
Young Seawright also was taken
Ben Sarrent, Editor-In-Chief.
GAS DILUTION
HIT BY EXPERT
C. of C. Meeting
The vote came after Mr., Long
trunks.
Telephone calls tolling of
the
to Methodist Hospital.
,=****.......----- 1 Witnesses said Seawright was
da ffice. driving east on Avenue H and the
Southwestern Bell Telephone Perkins family were riding south
By GR % E MALONEY
Branch offices of the chain letter racket were mushroom- I
| ing throughout Fort W orth today as the main headquarters |
at 301 Main St. was crowded with customers. (
C. B. Jones; attached to 301 Main St., revealed to The
Press that he is a deputy county assessor at Oklahoma City
and that two other employes were also. Melvin Poole is an
Oklahoma City deputy county assessor and Paul Hays is. a
deputy county clerk at Oklahoma City.
_____:_____________________—+ “We cams to Fort Worth on 1
U. S. Chemist Says Tests
Essential for Efficiency
The city drew support from a
powerful wing of the Federal!
Government in its long fight to
enforce the ordinance which pro-
| hibits fuel dilution by Lone Star
Gas Co. ■
THE WEATHER !
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FORT WORTH AND VICINITY—Mostly
cloudy, probably local showers arid thun-
derstorms tonight and Wednesday. Cooler
tonight, minimum temperature 56 to 60
degrees
WEST TEXAS—Cloudy, probably with
showers tonight and Wednesday. Cooler
in the south portion tonight. Warmer in
the north portion Wednesday.
EAST TEXAS Cloudy, probably with
our vacation, wanted to buy in on
a chain and finding none., started
one ourselves." Mr. Jones ex-
plained.
—"Everyone is making money but
us," Mr. Jones volunteered.
The Main St. shop, operated by
H. B. May Jr., 1221 Clara St., to-
day had swelled its force of em
ployes to eight typists, two notary!
(Turn to Page 10).
‘ scattered showers and thunderstorms to- |
night and Wednesday. Cooler in the in-
terior tonight.
TEMPERATURES.
Chief Chemist E. R. Weaver of
| the U. S. Bureau of Standards gas
Time— ARS
12 Midnight .....
YearAgo Yesterday Today
68
e 2a m.
PATMAN FORCES TO
| produced two new affidavits pur-
„ . 1 tuner 33 | porting to show Mr. Farley’s con-
.By C: DOUGLS . nection with contract awards in
PLAINVIEW,'May 14. — Ama-New York:
rillo, appeared today to have the . The 62 to 20 vote showed that
1936 convention of the West 19 Republicans and one Progres-
Texas Chamber of Commerce aive"vred with Mr. Long and 59
Tama and Brownwood mopCtpmiar-EtXRomitoL" Mme
were putting up a hot contest fom In the bitter exchange which
the meeting, Convention cities ceded the roll-call Mr
will offer their invitations today preceded roll-call Mr Lons
and the convention will make a 3 you can no more burn and
derno io monte got under full squelch these facts than, you can
swing today with Grady Shipp, of storthe lishtningor maike this
the Plainview Chamber giving the You can no more make this
welcome. Mayor Van Zandt Jar-man 4 pure man than you can
vis of Fort Worth was among make arte NE McKellar re-
those who responded. which Mr. nicAemar re
i President James D. Hamlin of pled. „ , , "
Farwell, an old-timer in the fa- ' The S ator . Louisiana is
mous XIT ranch, presided. - . the past grand faster, a leader
A chilly wind sent Fort Worth’s . of abuse ,
103 delegates into a shiver when _ . Openly Crooked
they arrived today The whole. Taunting other senators who
Raymond Michero. City Editor____plains country was in the grip of sat in silence as Mr. Long loosed
-------------a brisk cold wind r a violent stream of accusations
TIIMINAO VATF Amon G. Carter will extendand charges, he neta
Lil PINUX Vlllr Fort Worth's 1936 bid, but no shouted
TILILINUO VUIL active campaign will be made to "There never has been a case
TUIAFAPIIRFIAE capture the gathering.
INDEDENTENDL Bands Score.
INTUEKENUCNUL The Fort Worthers, headed by
*1* * ck Texas Christian Univer-
■ sity Band, and joined by 110 dele-
Favor Constitution by An gates from. Wichita Falls, made
- 1: their entrance into the conven-
Overwhelming Margin
On Island
RUSH BONUS BILL A A P. 1. May 14 -
lots and orderly voting rep O
native bolos and bloody revolution |
Claim New Strength to
Override Probable Veto
today as voters culminated a half
century of effort with overwhelm-
tion city in parade formation.
The Wichita Falls boys brought
(Turn to Page 10).
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DIONNES' ESTATE
^REACHES $175,000
so openly crooked in the history---
of the country. There can't be a
defense made but don't worry -1
about it. There'll be a defense
made in the United States—Sen---.
•
Mr. Long brought to the Sen-
ate;
1. A new affidavit—by • Miss
Lottie Koch, a former employe of
| James Stewart & C o., New York—
stating that, the company's files
were cleared of documents per- -
taining to Mr. Farley at the time
I of a federal investigation of a . ,
New York contracting job.
,2. A statement by Mrs. Helen
Humphreys, who said she would
testify unnder oath regarding ma-
terial contained in her affidavit
produced yesterday.
3. Reports of the PWA inves-
tigation of conditions In New
York, containing a report by
Wharton Green, special agent in
. charge, stating, among other
things
Proof Uncertain
“We may not be able to secure
proof there were irregularities in
connection with the award of con-
tracts or subcontracts on either
ing approval of a 10-year Inde- C na A
pendence Plan- at a constitutional Fund For Quintuplets Con-
prebiscite. tinues to Grow
Returns from the city of Ma- ____.
nila and 14 island provinces to- By United Press. v
night showed the Filipinos to have. TORONTO, Ont., May 14.—The
approved the proposed common- Dionne quintuplets’ estate is now
wealth government’s constitution $175,000. Welfare Minister David
by a margin of more than 35 to Croll, chief guardian, announced
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, May 14. —
’ Bonus forces, claiming added
| strength, laid plans today to
rush the inflationary Patman bill
in the White House for President
Roosevelt’s expected veto.
A decision to reject all com-
promises and force the issue to
a—showdown.....—immediatelywap
reached at a hotel room confer-
ence late last night. Patman
advocates claimed new strength
to override a veto.—————
The President was reported
division announced that tests con-
ducted thus far by his staff show
i, ...that dilution, or stabilization, of
poles were on Mackey Stu. Seawrizhts aAtel gas is not essential for the prop-
er functioning of burners.
He said the experiments, car-
ried on in a temporary laboratory
at Texas Christian University,
Child Rode in Lap. 1 have revealed no facts which alter
Mr. Perkins was driving with his stand against the Lone Star’s
the child in his lap. | Joshua plant, which injects nitro-
gen and other inert gases into
lines-leadingto the city.............—
The tests, he said, uphold ear-
lier conclusions of the bureau,
whose director Lyman J’' Briggs,
A*,..-10P,The
Co —reported many - . -------.
down and that all sections of the struck the right side of the 1 er-
city were affected . kins machine.
Mrs. Perkins was sitting on that
side.
A plate glass window at Third
and Commerce was smashed.
Basement of the City Hall was
flooded.
Windows were demolished In
Jarvis Hall, girls’ dormitory of - thr of Mr and
Texas Christian University. Cam—Mae Wright- daughter of i and -
pus trees were leveled. - Mrs. J. F. Wright, att t Holy
.The lights went out at Baptist Name School and. Central High
naanital leaving the institution School. Her parents are dead.
*30---------41-2 bo-serand.au4.chil4,
- % ... . ** Att in she is survived Beh*am*t 1
Pulliam’s blacksmith shop Robert and a, brother.
•,.• ,!, block ol East Lancaster ; tore both or mog cm
street by™* * NABRF 1
wind and. collapsed. A nearby
telephone pole was snapped in
Mrs. Perkins, the former Anna
cago‘t.
Mrs. Robert
0
was caring for the
10 a. m. .
11 a m..
12, Noon .
64
62
65
70
76
. 6 p. mo- 64 83
Maximum........75 85 ..
Minimum .......54 5#
Sun rises tomorrow 5 29 sets 7 21.
MILK FOR NEEDY
hum The plebiscite submitted-them
following figures in the Manila
today.------------
"When we took charge of the
babies they had $27,000." Mr
elections; Complete, returns from babies they had $-*:
Croll said "Of this $5000 was
Manila-andincomplete-returns---a-----2---=
. A1N Casino 1
from the other islands were: 35 $22,000 were pending,
out of 49 provinces gave approve
preparing a strong veto message
“WHY* ******
the courthouse or postoffice an-
nex, but the circumstances that
those connected with the same ap-
pear’greatly concerned is indica-
live of something " .
bin “L-siquelhotiterte
mil-renerih-thitiinom—q=*=q-qqqo--oumnsu=nann*uit
energy of the gas reformed is iy more than hoisement or the constitution
*-* lost in the—process, the city for -distribution to needy 40,044 mewrages pouring in at drifted by the I ilinping legisla
- families in Tarrant County and time White House had affected ture, pre vionsly Tad bee n approve
19 others nearby, his opposition to the measure, ed by President Roosevelt L
and the pfocess is' otherwise ex-
pensive.’ ' -—--
his opposition to the measure.
ed by President Roosevelt.
two. , .
Storm sewer inlets clogged,
flooding streets all over the city.
The City Sewer Department said
no serious damage had been re-
P t live wire menaced traffic at
Bewick and Henderson Sts: A po-
lice car was sent there to give
warning.
A tree blew across the 1900
block Fairmount Ave., blocking
cars.
Trees in Burnet Park were torn
down.
The heaviest rainfall for the
last 24 hours was 1.94 Inches at
Bridgeport. At
Rainfall recorded In W est Tex-
as towns: Childress, .60; Claren-
don, .34; Lubbock, .14; Memphis,
.50; Miami, .44; Quanah, .16,
and Seymour, .14.
At 10 a. m. it was raining at
Big Spring.
child today.
The mother's body is at the
Robertson-Mueller-Harper Funer-
al Chapel."
HOT OIL HEARING SET
Regulations for Confiscation to
Be Determined
By United Press.
AUSTIN, May 14.—A special
hearing will be held here May 24
by the State Railroad Commission
to determine regulations for con-
fiscation of “hot" oil and for
movement of oil products by mo-
tor trucks.
The hearing was called as a re-
sult of the legislature passing
House Bill 581. The bill which
provides for confiscation of "hot”
oil already above the surface, took
effect yesterday when Governor
Allred signed it.
Beautiful But Dumb Co-Eds Not Popular, Is Claim
s 3 * s * * * **-*
educate their children, and other-
! T. C. U. and T. W. C. Professors Have Word to Say For All-Around College Girl irefused.
in cash and contracts totaling
inst three mont *tol sen. Jomta •
t.....-amoieare
. ha ted the increase speech yesterday, and brandishing 9
with A minimum or expense, noth: a copy of the PWA reports on the '
ins paid out for agents or man the New York investigaakair. said: s
0 END MATS VT * * ■
swell the postornice committee- Was
Mr. Croll said the government charged with opposing the reso-
had repeatedly offered to build a
new house for the Dionnes, to
lution and answering Mr. Long’s
argument.
He charged that Mr Long’s at-
tack was due to “political malice
Today's popular co-ed Is
no I lar girl, good grades.
longer “beautiful but dumb," ac-
cording to TWC and TCU pro-
fessors.
This Idea of the old regime has
passed, as we can see by glancing
through any college annual at the
beauty section. It seems to have
shifted to "attractive and intelli-
gent."
More stress is put now on
neatness and leadership than on a
pretty face.
Miss Eula Lee Carter, Spanish
teacher at TCU, puts at the head
of her list ofrqualities for a popu-
"I think," she says, “that to be of TWC.
popular a girl should also, be a
leader in a number of organiza-
tions op the campus."
She stated that she thought the
co-ed should be athletic and in
this way keep her health at its
best. She should also be very
neat in her clothes, but not nec-
essarily beautiful. Poise and car-
riage should also be considered in
selecting a popular co-ed.
"And she should be depend-
able," Miss Carter concluded.
.Differing slightly from
opinion is that of Dean Law Sone Dean Sone’s idea of a popular
co-ed. * ■
He holds the same Idea
that Miss Carter does in that a
girl should be dependable, but he
feels that she should be funda-
mentally correct in matters of
dress and carriage. "
“I feel that she should be In-
terested in sports, yet at all times
keep her femininity," he says.
He thinks that she should be
attractive, have an even tempera-
ment and be poised |n any cir-
cumstances. A jolly, modest girl,
interested in all activities of the
this I community she lives in, completes
One would naturally expect a
librarian's idea to be first a’good
student, and that is just what it
is. Mrs. J. E. Mothershead, li-
brarian at TCU, has this very
opinion, and couples it with a
pleasant all-around person.
“I don't thing looks count very
much,” she says, “for to me youth
is beautiful.” ‘
Mrs. Mothershead believes the
popular co-ed should be conscien-
tious in her work and one who
takes part in the various activi-
ties of the campus.
BARBARA REMARRIED
Dime Store Heiress Now
Countess After Quick Divorce
By United Prism
and spleen.
At one point in his speech, Mr.
Long shouted:
“They sent : is (Louts Glavis
of the PWA investigation bureau)
Is and Green,to the offices of Stew-
art 4 Co. to investigate this dia-
bolical swindle and fraud and
RENO, Nev., May 14. Barbara when they got there they were
Hutton. Woolworth dime store told they couldn’t get at the files,
heiress, became Countess Haug- "Go ahead and whitewash him
witz-Reventlow today, 24 hours (Farley). We’ll hear from some-
after she discarded Prince Alexis body else in this country if you
Mdivani In a secret Reno divorce edo.”
The bride was dressed In a Mr. McKellar shouted that Mr.
yellow chiff print dress while Long wanted, only to display
the count wore a dark gray "venon spleens hatred and malice
double-breasted business suit.. to a rd I ‘arle" V
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