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Local Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and,tomorrow.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17,1939
ress HOME
EDITION
PRICE THREE CENTS
GRAMA-FED FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS CO. ... ADNEARY--T-Y
Sired With West Virginia Charter, It Did Well On Chicago RangesARMOUR MEN
weigh stock on the hoof, the Spanish-porticoed in the Fort Worth enterprise to a trustee.
Exchange Bldg., add up to the $2,574,473 net From Swift and others, United acquired another
43.35 per cent of the Fort Worth yards owner-
ship, giving it 78.97 per cent and undisputed
control.
By DAVE HALL
CRAMA i* a pasture grass which puts more
U weight on big-boned, white - faced steers
than anything else they crop on West Texas
ranges. It sends them to Fort Worth’s livestock
market year after year as 1200 to 1400 pound-
ers, top stuff under anybody’s brand.
Big - boned, black -figure - feced Fort Worth
Stockyards Co. is grama-fed among corpora-
tions.
Sired with a.West Virginie charter in 1893,
ranged since on Chicego’s well-stocked South
Side, the company is as sure e money-maker
year efter yeer es any financial animal which
ever wore the Swift end Armour brand.
It has paid stockholders’ dividends for more
then 30 yeers without a hitch. Fair results of
its grama-feeding ere its corporate earnings for
1938, $2.12 cents a share; 1937, $2.62; 1936,
$2.16. With no par value, a share is worth
near $25.
Rope ground the horn* of this 46 - year - old
financial bovine it held by United Stockyards
Corp., a Chicago holding company which alto
guides stockyards in St. Paul, Sioux City, la.,
Toronto, Ont., Milwaukee, Portland, South San
Francisco, and Brighton, Mass.
Capitalization of the Fort Worth company
is 110.000 shares outstanding, of which United
holds 86,862. In 1937, United received in divi-
dends more than $225,000 on its holdings of
the Fort Worth company’s capital stock.
Nat income of Fort Worth’s stockyards by
years: 1938, $234,938; 1937, $296,455; 1936,
$179,165.
Acres of pens, rows of sheds, scales which
City Employes —
. Union Demands H n
Closed Shop | ^^^
County Said to Have—
Agreed to Plan For
Tarrant Employes
By ALLAN CARNEY
The County and Municipal Em*
ployes Union, -through its busi-
ness agent,' John A. Luttrell,
has asked City Council for a
closed shop in the city depart-
ments covered by A. F. L. Local
No. 96.
Mr. Luttrell presented his re-
quest for official recognition of
the union at a closed council ses-
sion yesterday. Without examin-
ing the proposed agreement, coun-
cil delayed consideration of the
matter and turned it over to City
Manager Bothwell for study. .
Asks Sick Leave
The union is satisfied with
7
4
1
(1938) property investment.
In recent years, management of Fort Worth's
stockyards has passed in name through two dif-
ferent hands, but always more or loss under the
watchful eye of Swift & Co,
Until recent days of SEC regulation, Swift
and Armour names studded the directorate of
the Fort Worth company.
Annual reports of the company for 1936
showed among the nine directors J. H. Biss,
Swift & Co. assistant treasurer; Lester Armoukt
L. F. Swift Jr., and Henry Veeder, Swift & Co.
general counsel. FA
This year's directorate, trimmed to six mem-
Suit was brought in 1920 by the U. S. Attor-
ney General to break the packers’ control
over public stockyards. A content decree was
entered, prohibiting Swift and other defendants
from holding or acquiring public yards.
i Armour & Co. in 1928 transferred its holdings
(35.62 per cent) in the Fort Worth yards to bains year s “ recrorare, trimmed to six mem-
General Stockyards Corp., which ... dissolved berwis AG Donovan general manager, and
in 1937, its assets going by sale to John De Diet ecretaru.treat ^. ^ —
Witt’s newly organized United.
1 J. W. Dies, secretary-treasurer (the only two
1 Fort Worthers): John DeWitt and C. F. Top-
ping, of Chicago; H. L. and L. F. Niles of
Swift & Co. shifted in June, 1932, it* shares Boston.
ARMO
Frank Murphy’s
Name Raised
By Bund Chief
. Says Atty. General
Addressed Group But
Showered No Praises
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Fritz
Kuhn, leader of the German-Amer-
ican Bund, testified today before
the Dies committee that Atty,
Gen. Frank Murphy addressed a
Bund meeting in Detroit in 1936.
Kuhn volunteered this informa-
tion after clashing repeatedly with
the committee over the “fairness”
TO DECIDE ON
STRIKE TONIGHT
Manager Donovan of Firm
Agrees to Conference af 9 A. M.
Tomorrow on Cattle Tie-up
Butcher-floor employes of Armour & Co.'were on the verge
of joining 200 livestock handlers in strike today as two con-
ferences were called to settle issues in the North Side stockyard
tie up. •
Late developments, - .
1. Members of the United Packing House Workers, Local No
54, were to decide tonight whether they will walk out on the 1
Armour killing room floor.
2. Union leaders and stockyards
company officials will gather for
a 9 a. m. conference tomorrow
seeking to settle the strike dif-
ficulties.
Stock Supplies Dwindling
Livestock supplica available for
slaughter at Fort Worth’s major
packing plants were shrinking
rapidly as the atrike entered its
second day with paralyzing effect
on the city’s second biggest indus-
try.
Orderly pickets turned back an
estimated 100 truck loads of ani-
mals during the night and morn-
ing. No violence was reported.
James Porter, district CIO rep-
resentative, sent a message to A.
G. Donovan, stockyards company
manager, at 11 a. m., asking Mr.
Donovan to communicate with the
handlers' union today with a view
of arranging a conference to talk
settlement of the strike.
E Exchange headquarters, then
returned to the plant. With Mr
Sedberry, a butcher, were Harold
Admar, butcher, and Robert Dun-
can, laborer, both stewards in Lo- ,
cal No. 54.
of questions. I Meeting Place Disputed
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas, Repub- Mr. Donovan replied an hour
lican of New Jersey, had been later, suggesting a conference at
questioning Kuhn about Bund 9 a. m. tomorrow at downtown
leaders in Buffalo. Thomas con- offices of Cantey, Hanger A Mc-
cluded and Kuhn spoke up: Mahon, stockyards attorneys.
present wages of its members, a
Mr Luttrell said today, but is a
asking for council recognition and
a provision for annual sick leave
with pay.
County officials already have D
agreed to give the union a closed H
shop among Tarrant employes
city councilmen were told, but the
agreement has not been signed.
"We’re not asking the city to--
ire its non-union employes,” Mr.
Luttrell added. “We just want the
inion recognized so the others
vill come in.”
388 on Rolls
The union official said Local
No. 96 has 388 city and county
employes on its rolls. In the city
government, ootside workers in
the engineering and water depart-
ments, garbage division and city
garage are eligible. Office help is
not included.
More than 90‘per cent of the
eligible city employes already are
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Sudden Grab of
Danzig Is Seen
Nazis Say Situation
Like That On Eva of
Sudeten S-izure
By United Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 17.—Nazi quar-
ters contended today that settle-
ment of the Danzig problem is a
question of days.
They compared the present sta-
tus of the Danzig issue to that
of 10 days or two weeks before
the Sudeten settlement last year.
Diplomatic activity gathered
speed after the various confer-
ences held within a week at
Berchtesgaden, Salzburg, Warsaw
and Danzig. Well - informed
sources regarded another meeting
between the Italian and German
foreign ministers. Count Galeazzo
Ciano and Joachim Von Ribben-
trop, as a good possibility for ex-
amination of new factors in the
situation.
This la a sight which Fort Worth, capital of the Cow Country, has not witnessed in the 37 years since its vast stockyards
came into being—acres and acres of cattle pens empty and still.
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: Mahon, stockyards attorneys.
And here’s another thing. Did Union leaders countered with a
you_know.that the attorney Mr. proposal for the conference to be
held at the stockyards.
Word leaked out of the Armour
& Co. .plant that the CIO union
was polling members on whether
to strike as soon as available sup-
plies of livestock from the yards
had been butchered, and before
slaughter was started on ship-
ments received direct.
Murphy addressed a Bund?"
“Did he praise the Bund?”
Thomas asked.
“Naw!” Kuhn replied.
The Bund leader persistently ob-
jected that questions seeking to
develop, a"connection between the
Bund and the German Nazy Party
were unfair.
Kuhn said he favored a united
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Oil Shutdown
Ups Gas Prices
Third Grade Motor
Fuel Leads In
Increased Costs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-
Secretary of Interior Harold L.
Ickes said today that the mid-
western oil crisis illustrates the
need for legislation providing
federal-state cooperation in deal-
ing with oil matters.
By United Press.
TULSA, Okla., Aug 17. Gaso-
line prices increased today as the
15-billion-dollar petroleum Indus-
try felt the pinch of the six-state
shutdown thst has cut off nearly
70 per cent of the nation’s crude
oil production.
Leading the advance was third-
grade gasoline, the inferior prod-
uct sold st cut prices st filling
stations for use in outmoded cars
or tractors. The price at the re-
finery was up a quarter-cent a
gallon in many areas today.
High Grades Up Too
Refiners also boosted an eighth
of a cent a gallon the price on
their premium grade gasoline,
known to the trade as 70-72 oc-
The price upturn which included
the kerosene market in West
Texas, originated with small re-
finers who had meager supplies of
cruds oil on hand to operate their
plants and no immediate prospects
of getting more.
To Offset Cut
The Stockyards Strike Casa Party
(AN EDITORIAL) Is Treat to
TIHE strike at the Fort Worth Stockyards directly affects
I only shout 200 employes of the yards and their employer,
the Stockyards Company. 00, 10RN9 Bod.
Indirectly it affects our city’s greatest industry, the pack- Ninety-year-old George Turner 590) IS snipped From
ing business, and thousands of citizens and businesses. If not of the Home for Aged Masons Washington D. C.: to
dipped into an ice cream cup "
alongside shrilling young sters Atlanta Ga by Train
half dozen children's - PY Iram
The harm it does will be homes today. . . By United Press.
He drank his pop, too! | ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 17.—The
Then, with oldsters and kids body of a negro woman was found
.. . from 3 to 90, Mr. Turner saw a today in a trunk shipped from
yards management were unable to agree on certain demands show, Washington, D. C., to the terminal
made by the employes' union. Both sides had made some con- | The occasion was the special railroad station here.
cessions, but not enough to reach an agreement. matinee which Casa Manana Authorities said the woman
Now that the strike has been called, both sides have stif- performers, put.." at.20..a.m: was.about.32 and dressed only in
fened. The longer the deadlock lasts the harder it will be to
speedily settled, it will seriously hurt Fort Worth's position as
a great meat packing center, and will nick the pay envelopes from a
of thousands of wage earners,
permanent unless it is settled soon.
The strike was called after the employes and the Stock-
restore peace,
The sooner the thing is settled the better it will be for
the workers, their employers, the livestock business and the
welfare of the city.
Since the two parties were unable to agree between them-
selves, why not choose a neutral arbitrator, some practical and
fair-minded person who is not concerned with either side, and
lay the facts in the case before him ? Then let both sides agree
to abide by his decision. ,
Arbitration has been used for a long time to settle disputes
between labor and employers by old, well-established unions.
The shutdown, now encompass-
ing most of the Mid-continent
area where oil production rivals
Despite open telephone lines
from Rome to Berchtesgaden,
where Hitler is staying, and to agriculture as a resource and live-
Salzburg, where Robbentrop is, a lihood for state governments and
personal conference apparently
seemed indicated.
For instance, contracts between publishers and the typographi-
cal union, one of the oldest and most successful unions in the
labor field, contain provisions for just such methods of settling
differences. And while the arbitration is progressing in an
orderly manner, work goes on, the workers get their pay and
the plant continues to function.
We believe, if both sides honestly want to settle the dif-,
ferences which precipitated the stockyards strike, that arbitra-
tion is the best method. If both sides can agree on an arbi-
trator, then let the men go back to work so that the workers'
pay can go on and the industry can function normally while
the differences are being straightened out by representatives
of the union and of the Stockyards Company, with the help
of the arbitrator.
Meantime, a policy of restraint on both sides will do more
it was reported that the sum-
moning of the Reichstag for a
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than harsh words or actions to ease the situation. Nothing is
ever, settled by bull-headedness, and usually the longer a dead-
populations, was designed to force
the refiners to restore a general
crude price cut averaging 20 lock lasts the harder it is to break,
cents per barrel. It was hoped, by - -
the six states
Woman Is Victim
Of Trunk Murder
Claim 650 Members
Shortly before noon three lead-
ers of the packing house workers’
union, headed by Cecil Sedberry,
chief steward, held a hurried con-
ference with Kermit Fry, CIO
field representative, at the 110 1-2
The union claims a membership
of 650 in the Armour plant The
Swift plant is unorganized.
Tension at Packeries
Unmistakable signs at ths pack- ■
ing houses indicated growing ten-
sion over the prospects of *
shutdown in the killing rooms, ,
although Swift and Armour offi-
cials were close-lipped on the sub-
ject.
Four truck loads of South
Texas steers entered gates of the
Armour & Co. plant at mid-morn-
ing. No picket line was stationed
st the entrance. Swift & Co. of-
ficials said they had received one
carload of calves, diverted from
another destination.
Corridor rumors in the Live- a
stock Exchange Bldg, said that
the Armour Company did not
have enough animals on hand to
continue slaughter-room opera- ■
lions through the day.
Visitors were barred from the
big Armour plant, usually open to
all corners. A. L. Lund, general
manager, said there was “con-
struction going on."
Auction Ring Busy
With stockyards business at a A
standstill, the Fort Worth Cattle
Auction Co. on N. E. 39th was
doing a brisk busineqs with a
free-for-all open market. Receipts
at mid-morning totaled 500 head.
Commission men and other buy-
ers were on the ground. The auc-
tion company, managed by Jake
James, takes a 3 per cent fee on
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Rancher and Commission
Men Hit Hard by Strike;
Here's How Yards Operate
for Tarrant County orphans and underclothing. The body was bent
the aged inmates of other back double to force It in the
trunk.
homes.
With Mr. Turner, one-time
blacksmith, came 74 other elder-
ly companions from the Masonic was checked out of Washington
institution. Oldsters, some feeble, ”
others spry, mingled with boys
and girls from the Lena Pope
Home, the Tarrant County Or-
phans’ Home, the Masonic Home,
the All-Church Home, and St.
Teresa's Home — all with ears
scrubbed red, and in their Sunday
best. Chartered buses brought _________________
them from every corner of the I The trunk was pried open and
county. .
As they filed into the theater,
each youngster and oldster was
handed a cold bottle of Coca
Cola, compliments of C. A.
Lupton.
At the end of the show,
Peculiar Odor Noticed.
Railroad officials said the trunk
Tuesday over the Richmond, Fred-
erick and Potomac Railroad and
the Seaboard Air Line to Atlanta.
It arrived at the station here yes-
terday afternoon.
Baggage masters noticed a pecu-
liar odor coming from the trunk
today and they called police and
health authorities.
the body found.
Police said the trunk was
shipped by someone who had
purchased, but not used, a railroad
ticket for Atlanta.
Through the Pen*,
To Packing House
Goe* Old Bess
By WILLARD BARR
TN the gray dawn a truck
A backs up to the 28th St.
chute of the stockyards.
The driver crawls out and
stretches, glad to be in from
Midland or Dublin or Brady.
Up in the truck Old Bess—
or whatever you call a beef
cow—and her 19 companions
stomp the floorboards and In-
dulge in occasional bellows.
They're headed for a one-way
cattle drive, down the chute
and through the yards. Some
will go to the slaughter pen,
others through traders to a
boxcar and then to the feed-
ing ranges.
Trunk Nearly New.
Railroad officials said the
trunk was a "medium priced" one
constructed of fiber and practi-
Meanwhile, on the stage, Abe cally new. It is of the "square"
Lyman was putting hie band and type,
other Casa Manana entertainers Police said that the trunk vic-
that tim was apparently a negro.
The victim had light brown
It was so good skin, black bobbed and somewhat
creameries treated all to a cup
of ice cream.
All Skaters Invited
To Try ‘Ice’ at Casa
Hop onto your Ice skates to-
night and give old Kid Humidity
the laugh.
That's Lou Wolfson's hot weath-
er advice.
Wolfson, Casa Manana produc-
er, invited all persons with ice
skates to bring 'em out to Casa
tonight and take a whirl at the
synthetic ice there before the
“ice” is ripped up.
It must be taken off the Csss
stage before the new show goes
on tomorrow.
Both skating and dancing will
be in order to Abe Lyman’s music
after tonight * show Wolfson an
nounde” -
The Press suggests immediate arbitration on its own voli-
(Turn tn Pel participate tion, without suggestion from either side in the strike, and
--------—. . does so because it believes the welfare of a lot of wage earners,
of one of our greatest industries, and therefore of our whole
city, is seriously involved.
HIGHUGHTS IN
TODAY'S PRESS
Ludwell Denny, Scripps-
Howard Labor writer, gives
the inside story of how CIO
leader John L. Lewis is strik-
ing back at those who have
criticized him for his attack
on Garner and for other re-
cent acta on Page 5 of today’s
Press. He tells how Lewis la
opening war on many fronts.
Football fans will want to
keep for future reference the
complete 1939 college football
schedule on Page 12 of to-
day’s Press. Every large
school in the nation is in-
cluded on the schedule, which
will be useful many times
durini the season
Holdup Suspect Slain,
2 Officers Wounded
By United Press
SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 17.-
One suspected robber was killed
and two city policemen were
wounded in a gun duel here today.
Two suspects and police radio
car patrolmen exchanged shots at
2 a. m. near a garage that had
been held up.
The dead youth was identified
as Robert Atkins. His companion.
through a 45 - minute show t
had both youngsters , and their
elders pop-eyed. _ ______.
they quickly forgot their disap- kinky hair
pointment that Martha
would not appear. Miss Raye re-; ________.. ..___
portedly was ill, after a pork chop had been killed by blows
supper at 2:30 a. m. head
Everything was donated — tal---------—
ent, theater and refreshments. TOE Q . tl irn
Stage workers joined the volun- THE WEATHER
teers.
* After the party, buses re- eiduaC IonieN ANX
turned young and old guests to i Friday; minimum
their homes. But not until one t em perature
80-year-old Mason had insisted tonight near 77 de-
on straying into Seventh St. to mum rrday "near
see the sights. 98 degrees.
A white-haired old lady, from WEST TEXAS-
the same home, warned: | adorato
"Joe H — you get right back scattered thunder:
on this sidewalk or I'll turn you showers in south
over my knee and spank you.” portion.
Joe got back on the curb.
. _______She weighed about
Raye 135 pounds.
I Detectives said that the woman
on the
Here's Whet 'Guest'
O F course, today a strike has
U tied up the stockyards, but
on a non-strike day, here's what
Old Bess and her mates may ex-
pect.
The truck driver, represent-
ing the owner or shipper, will
unload them down the chute,
aided by “a handler” of the
Stockyards Co.—one of the
fellows on strike today. The
handler 'drives the herd Into
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Shrinkage Plays
Havoc With Cattle
Not Sold Quickly
By C. L. DOUGLAS
THE Texas ranchers who sup-
1 ply the beefsteak for the
platter of the consumers, and
the large commission firms
which handle the steers they
send to market are among the
chief victims of the Livestock
Handlers Union strike which s
paralyzed Fort Worth Stock
Yards today.
The union men, the packers,
and the Yard owners undoubt-
edly will suffer a great deal of
economic discomfort if the situ-
ation continues, but the ship-
pers and the coinmission men-
bystanders, you might say, in
the labor dispute—stand to take
quite a beating.
Shrinkage Prove*
Big Bugaboo
THE cattle reisers, some of
1 whose fathers and grand
fathers before them, were well
known on the local market, face
an inevitable loss from shrink-
age if the stock they s* Hire,
is allowed to stand in V
any length of time.
And the commissic %,
many of which have (
ing business here » *
packing plants were
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Grand Jury Reopen*
Dual Drowning Probe
The county grand jury today
reopened the investigation into Joe got Dack on the curb. . iaromiatdie pressure 2
the drowning of Rev. Germano Lyman was cheered when he ----
Stefopoulos, elderly Greek Driest announced: “I hope to be back COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES,
and Chrest Pappas, 47, of Dallas, in Fort Worth next year. If 1 12 Midnight YeArAEo Yes day Thast
Tat Mari‘ id0- there’ll sure be another 2 a m
last May in Eagle Mountain Lake, party." 1 4 a. m.
The grand jury's action came at-----+-- 5 a m
the request of Harry Pappas of I PROSECUTORS TO SING s A. m.
ent " . „ The district attorney's office 9 a. m.
„ . Dallas, brother of Chrest Pappas. will take charge of the services at 10 a. m.
Howard E Lyman, 23, was cap- The jury took testimony from Trinity Episcopal Church Sunday. I 1 R.m
Dist. Atty. Marvin Brown Jr. will 1 p. m.
sing and Asst. Dist. Atty. Stewart 2 p m.
77
76
76
78
Today
tured
Henry Tesdahl Jr., and Robert
Johnson were the officer*
* wounded # (
nine men who aided in recovering
the bodies of saw the men imme-
diately before the drowning
Hellman will preach the morning
session at 11 a. m
Here's Hint for Your but %
Week-End Entertainmenty
All day Sunday, beginning at 9:30 a. m., junior aviator
enthusiasts will fill the air with modal planet at the Z. Beat
flying field. The derby will last all day.
There'll be gasoline-propeiled crafts—those small, staunch
ships with motor* no bigger then your mother's thimble! They
fly as if they were manned by pilots. A
Then there will be those rubber-band fliers; fleet model
planes that scoot off the ground and soar . . , and tear . . .
and soar. %
If you are a model fen you'll be there without any urging.”
If you are e ded, mother, titter or brother of e junior flier,
you'll be there, too.
And if you ere just a casual Sunday driver, stop by the field
and you’ll be entertained and amazed at the things there."
lads can do with their model planes.
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