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RIL 19,1939
; president of
is in charge.
1 the school an-
Keren James is
ual.
Canadian Navy Hun ts Mystery Submarine Off Halifax
By United Press. . Ian Mackenzie said naval pa-
trols have been established off
Halifax harbor to investigate
the submarine reports. He said
the “utmost vigilance" is being
exercised by the patrols.
Earlier, naval authorities de-
nied that the ships had been or-
dered to prepare to sall. Sailors
HALIFAX, N. S., April 20. —
The crews of two Canadian
destroyers returned to their
ships early today, and the sail-
ors said they had been ordered
aboard because the ships were
going to hunt for a mysterious
submarine reported hovering off
the coast.
At Ottawa Defense Minister
said crews had not only been or-
dered aboard but reserves had
been ordered to naval barracks.
Unusual activities were re-
ported at the naval docks, which
were guarded against unauthor-
ized visitors, and It was said
that at 1 a. m. the destroyers
began getting up steam. Heavy
guards were at the naval docks
at 8 a. m., and the destroyers
Saguenay and Skeena were still
in the harbor.
The submarine had been
sighted by three ships' pilots,
by fishermen, and by the crew
of a freighter, and authorities
seemed to doubt no longer the
authenticity of these observa-
tions.
It was last sighted in Halifax
harbor which, during the World
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War, was the chief center for
shipments of munitions and
other war materials to Great
Britain from the North Amer-
ican continent.
The officers and crew of the
British freighter Cornerbrook
told authorities that early yes-
terday morning they had seen
the submarine three miles inside
the harbor. It moved slowly
H
10
vorld
feet
with
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Home Building
‘Boom’ Brings
Better Trade
Nearly $1,000,000
Invested This Year
In New Residences
The urge to own a home has
taken a firm hold on Fort Worth-
ers in recent months.
The resultant upsurge of new
residences—one of the biggest
new home "booms" in the city's
history—has brought more pros-
perous times to contractors, build-
ing supply dealers, craftsmen—to
all industries associated with
home-making, and to their em-
ployes.
And The Press today hails this
upswing with a “Home Week”
Edition.
Almost a million dollars has
been invested in new homes here
so far this year. Building records
. show the total almost twice that
of the same four months in 1938.
The figure does not include large
sums spent on repair and remodel-
ing.
FHA Biggest Aid
Many factors have contributed
to the upswing. Biggest incentive
to home-building, all observers
agree, has been the Federal Hous-
ing Administration, which doesn't
lend money at all, but through a
system of loan insurance, makes
long term, low-rate financing
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‘Good Neighbor’
Policy Voted
Bill Passes Inviting
• Pupils From South
America to Study Free
By United Press.
AUSTIN, April 20.—A “good
neighbor” policy of Pan-American
relations was endorsed today in
the House in a bill to allow 100
students of other North and South
American countries to attend Tex-
as colleges without payment of
tuition.
The Senate passed the bill to
provide that five students from
each country in the Western |
Hemisphere be admitted to any
state college in Texas without
paying tuition. The House amend-
ed the bill to provide that no
more than 100 students may be
accommodated in any one year.
Vote 95 to 35
The bill was engrossed in the
House, but a 95 to 35 vote to sus-
pend rules fell short of the four-
fifths majority needed for imme-
diate final passage.
The House refused to reverse its
action last night on a
passed bill to place the state rec-
lamation engineer in the
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toward their ship, they said,
and, while close to it, suddenly
submerged.
Ten minutes earlier Capt.
William Latter and Patrick Sul-
livan, harbor pilots, saw the
submarine come to the surface
at the entrance of the harbor
and bu
30 yards from their
pilot boat.
Only about 100 feet of the
craft were visible as It sped not taken too seriously, because
through the water, but they the Lockport fishermen have
thought it was a very large been known to sight sea ser-
submarine. They said it was penta. But, over the week-end
their impression that it had a pilot reported seeing the sub-
tremendous speed and power, marine off the important port
Their boat shook as it passed, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
they said. The Canadian Navy has no
The submarine was first re- submarines. The United States
ported by fishermen of Lockport Navy has no submarines in
last Thursday. Their story was Canadian waters.
he Fort Worth Pres
Local Forecast: Cloudy and cooler tonight and tomorrow.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939 ......
3
David Leavell, Press Oil
Editor, New Jaycee Head
New President Elected
By Acclamation; Takes
Office On June I
David C. Leavell was the new
president of the Junior Chamber
of Commerce today. Elected by ac-
clamation at a business meeting in
Blackstone Hotel last night, he
will take office June 1 for a six-
month term.
Mr. Leavell, oil editor of The
Press, will succeed Carlos Hol-
comb, retiring president.
Other new officers elected were
Ward Bailey, first vice president;
Ed Ernest, second vice president;
Marion Hicks, third vice presi-
dent; E. G. Aycock, secretary; J.
A. Johannes, treasurer, and Jim-
my Allen, national councillor.
Retiring Officers
Outgoing officers are Charlie
Hilliard, first .vice president; Ray
McCulloch, second vice president;
Norman Nicholson, third vice
president; Mr. Ernest, secretary,
and Mr. Hicks, treasurer.
The new president had served
as treasurer, as vice president and
as a director for six terms.
He called a meeting of the offi-
cial staff for 1 p. m. Saturday to
outline program and policy for
the new term and to organize
committees.
Missouri Graduate *
A student st Texas Christian
University from 1923 to 1926, Mr.
Leavell was graduated from the
University of Missouri School of
Journalism in 1927.
Mr. Leavell joined the staff of
Installment
Plan Bandit
Is Paid Off
By United Press.
HOUSTON, April 20.—An un-
identified gunman who robbed
Grocer R. B. Marshall on the in-
stallment plan, lay dead in a
morgue today after falling in his
third trip to "collect.” $58.
Marshall was robbed twice by
the man but he was ready for the
bandit when he returned to the
store for the third time last night.
The grocer shot him with a dou-
ble-barrel shotgun.
The chain started last Saturday.
The man took $30 and escaped.
Through an error, the grocer's
wife reported the loot $58.
Monday night, the bandit re-
turned, threatening and waving ’a
pistol. He demanded 'the rest of
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Burns Fatal to
Mrs. Jennie Cone
David C. Leavell
HOME
EDITION
PRICE THREE CENTS
, Boy, 7, Is City
8th Pedestria
To Die In Row
The Press in 1929 after spending
the intervening two years on the
staffs of the Marshall News-
Messenger and the Houston Post.
In 1935-36, Mr. Leavell served
Billy Blankenship
Fatally Injured On
E. Hattie Near Home
Seven-year-old Billy Blanken-
ship, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H.
Blankenship, 1508 East Hattie,
died in a local hospital today as
Tarrant County’s 15th auto victim
of the year.
He was the city’s 8th pedes-
trian victim since Jan. 1. Death
was caused by a fractured skull.
Billy was struck by an auto,
driven by Miss Jessie Shugar, 1411
Pruitt, as he crossed the street in
front of his home at 6:30 p. m.
— yesterday.
Traffic officers who investigated
reported that the boy ran into
the thorough-
fare. obscured
as president of the T. C. U. Ex-
students Assn., and is now a mem-
ber of the T. C. U. evening col-
lege advisory committee.
The new Jaycee head, a charter
member of the organization, is
chairman of the publicity commit-
tee now supplying information for
newspapers over the state on the
state Jaycee convention here
April 27-29.
No War In 739,
Howard Says
to the driver's
view by a park-
ed auto. Miss
Shugar, 19-
year-old stenog-
raphe* for a
creamery con-
cern, was at
her home today
suffering from
shock and un-
able to work.
Police said she
was not to
blame.
The boy’s
death was Fort
Worth's first
traffic fatality
in 32 days.
With his bro-
DEATH'S
SCORE
BOARD
Autocides
’to
This Date
1939
15
1938
20
ther. Bobby Gene, 9, and several
neighborhood children. Billy was
playing on the lawn at his home.
.Suddenly, for some reason that
But Opinion Subject this playmates were unable to ex-
— plain, the lad darted from the
IO Change, He States yard and into the street.
His father, employe of a pro-
duce firm, sped the boy to the
hospital. He did not regain con-
sciousness.
On Return Home
By United Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.—Roy W.
Howard of the Scripps-Howard
newspapers said on his return
from a tour of European capitals
today that "my own individual
opinion—subject to change within
24 hours is that there won't be
war in Europe this year."
He said he believed that Presi- | T.lla EDD
dent Roosevelt’s offer of mediation I TUA
Billy, a second grader at the
R. Vickery School, is survived by
the parents, one brother, and three
grandparents. Barney Blankenship
of Fort Worth, and Mr. and Mrs.
E. O. Moorhead of Arlington.
He said he believed that Presi-
was "soundly based" but added:
"If it fails, the failure can be
largely attributed, to the recent
well-merited, but none the less
ill-advised, barrage of American
denunciation of, Hitler. Dictators
do not dare lose too much face at
home."
Of Nazi Power
DUCE RIDICULES FDR‘S
PEACE PROPOSAL; NAZIS
CALL OUT MORE TROOPS
--------------THE PRESS TELEPHOTO RADIOS-----------
Two Pictures From EUROPE: Hitler
At Berlin, Paris Sinking at Le Havre
'. —Aeme Ragio Telephoto
Rumania’s Foreign Minister Grigore Gafeneu is shown as he met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin
today and discussed Rumania's determination to maintain a neutrality state. Hitler on the right.
Germany Shock:
World With
Giant Gun
By UNITED PRESS
ROME — Mussolini replies t
Roosevelt peace plea, scorning
ten-year peace guarantees as
"absurd” and criticizing "pyra-
midal errors of geography."
BERLIN — More military con-
scripts called for examination
as big military parade with
over- size anti-aircraft guns
marks Hitler's 50th birthday.
PARIS—Britain and France un-
derstood to have informed Rus-
sia they are ready to enter a
three-power military assistance
pact, which would revive % the
old pre-war triple alliances ”
‘ By STEWART BROWN *
United Press Correspondent.
ROME, April 20.—Premier Ben-
ito Mussolini replied to President
Roosevelt's peace appeal today by
asserting that Italy and Germany
wanted peace, that Italy distrust-
ed "arch-conferences" such as ths
President suggested, and that
Italy would not permit itself to
be oppressed by “Messiah-like
messages."
He denounced as absurd “ths
system of reciprocal ten-year
guarantees as well as the pyra-
midal errors of geography in-
curred by individuals who lack a
rudimentary knowledge of Euro-
pean affairs.”
Calls U. S. Distant Observer
The President had suggested a
10-year, or if possible a 25-year,
guarantee by Italy and Germany
against aggression.
As Mussolini spoke it was re-
vealed here that II Duce had
scored a forward step .in the
totalitarian campaign to consol-
idate its hold in Middle Europe.
Hungary, swinging closer to
the Rome-Berlin drbit, was un-
derstood to have agreed to of-
fer a non-aggression treaty to
Jugoslavia if the Belgrade gov-
ernment adheres to the totali-
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Gives President
First-Hand Data In
White House Parley
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, April 20.—Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh today gave
President Roosevelt a first-hand
report on his observation.* of for*
eign air strength which are cred-
ited as an important factor in the
current expansion of U. S. air
power. .
It was believed Lindbergh out-
lined to Mr. Roosevelt his personal
observations of German airplane
development which are credited
with being among the most au-
thoritative obtained by any out-
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, with
a nurse and two children, em-
barked on the liner Champlain to-
day for the United States.
Huge Army
Hails Hitler
On Birthday
By FREDERICK OECHSNER
United Press Correspondent
BERLIN, April 20.—The entire
1920 conscript class and about
half of the 1919 class’ were called
up for medical examination today
Mr. Howard returned to the
United States aboard the French
liner Ile de France after more
than two months in which .he in-
terviewed foreign diplomats, busi-
ness men and the man on the
street.
Matter of Credits
He said that Italy, because of its
need for foreign credits to con-
Mrs. Cynthia Jennie Cone,, a
Senate- Fort Worth resident 15 years, died
this morning at the residence,
2100 E. Morphy, of second degree
burns received early yesterday.
She was 73.
Mrs. Cone was standing with
State
Congress Okehs 66
Millions For Navy
WASHINGTON. April 20.—The
House today agreed* to Senate
amendments in the $66,800,000 na-
val air base bill and sent it to
the White House for signature.
The bill is an important item
in the general national defense
program asked by President
Roosevelt.
It provides for 16 bases in the
Pacific and on the West and East
Coasts, but contains no provision
for harbor improvements at
Guam. That proposal was strick-
en out for fear that such action
might offend Japan.
The hill includes a $1,500,000
authorization for Tongue Point,
Ore.
her back to the open gas stove
when the back of her dress was
ignited.
Mrs. Edna Hall, a daughter, ex-
tinguished the flames and called
Mrs. Hall, limping from a re-
cent leg injury, rushed to her
mother’s aid from the bed in
which she had been confined. •
Mrs. Cone was burned on legs,
right arm and face.
Other survivors include a son,
Albert Price, Philadelphia, Pa.,
and four grandchildren.
The body is at Phillips Funeral
Home.
THE WEATHER
FORT WORTH AND VICINITY-
Cloudy and cooler tonight, minimum
temperature near 50 degrees: Friday
cloudy
WEST TEXAS- Partly cloudy and
cooler tonight: Friday fair, cooler In
southeast portion.
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES.
Time- 1
12 Midnight .....58
YearAgo Yes’day
tinue its program of internal im-
provements, provided the
aggression front with its
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anti-
most
A (NEA Radiophoto)
Wax French authorities strongly suspected arson by foreign saboteurs in the destruction of the liner
Paris, shown above burning at her Le Havre dock. The $15,000,000 former flagship of the French
line was gutted, and sank. -
3 a. m.
4 a, m
5 a. m
7 a. m,
8 a. m
n a. m.
I a. m.
is
Today
Kidnaper, Attacker
Of Couple Sought
KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 20.
Police today searched for three
men who last night kidnaped a
young Kansas City couple, forced
them to drive into the country,
and left them tied in a wet field
after beating the girl because she
screamed.
The victims were Charles Col-
lins, 24, and Juanita Reed, 19.
They said they were aitting in
Collins' car in front of a resi-
dence on the outskirts of the
downtown district while Juanita's
mother visited, friends inside.
, /+--
O’DANIEL REPRIEVES
‘U. S. Prepared,’
Says Morgenthau
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, April 20. Sec.
of Treasury Henry Morgenthau
Jr., said today that the Adminis-
tration is now prepared to meet
any emergency that may arise
from the international situation.
He said completed plans for any
eventuality were presented to
President Roosevelt Tuesday. He
declined, however, to disclose
what steps would be taken to
cushion this country's financial
markets against shocks from Eu-
rope.
Speaking before the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee, Ray-
mont Buell, president of the For-
eign Policy Association, endorsed
the proposal by Sen. Key Pittman
(Democrat, Nevada), which would
place all trade with belligerent na-
tions on a “cash-and-carry" basis.
Delegates Tackle Wild West
Hospital Troubles Ideas Fade
in Lockup
Crusade of Prayer
Is Called By Pope
VATICAN CITY, April 20. —
Pope Plus XII today exhorted na-
tions of the world to settle their
quarrels and called upon the
faithful—especially children to
unite in a "crusade of prayer" for
peace.
In a pastoral letter issued five
days after publication of President
Roosevelt’s peace message, the
pontiff urged every city, village
and “even the smallest hamlet" to
participate in the prayers which
might appease ‘‘all mutual ran-
cors" and "discord between peo-
ples."
Care of indigent sick in private
| hospitals, where public institu-
tions are not available, was view-
I ed as a growing financial problem
here today by 100 delegates to the
Northwest Texas Clinic * Hospi-
tal Managers' Assn.
J. F. Morrison of Clovis, N. M.,
president, who preside dat a Ho-
tel Texas round-table discussion
A Chicago city alderman, Jo-
seph Rostenkowski, will come to
Fort Worth within the next few
days to arrange for the defense
of his nephew, 18-year-old Jerry
Kirsling, who, diked out in cow-
boy regalia, tried to stage a
dime-novel "Western" robbery
here March 27.
of hospital rates, declared that
finances are the major problem
confronting hospitals. ’ ................... pu.pusu.,
"The doctor and the hospital are training from making his bond as
the last people who get paid," he a means of purring ,.,,
said. "No institution has suffered robbery of the Majestic
more during the depression than here last March27.
the small hospital."
Bun rises tomon/aw 6:32; sets
67 AUSTIN, April 20. — Governor
71 O’Daniel today granted a co-ay
76 stay of execution to Johnny Cae-
sar, who was convicted of murder
in Dallas County, and scheduled
7:04. Ito be executed on April 21.
Study Figures
On Esplanade
City and county authorities to-
day began the compilation of de-
tailed cost figures on the pro-
posed $43,000 Riverside esplanade
project, with the view of arriv-
ing at a definite agreement on
division of the costs.
City Manager Lewis, County
Engineer Cook, and City Engineer
Jones conferred this morning on a
as Germany's armed forces, pa-
, v lading in honor of Adolf Hitler’s
50th birthday, displayed anti-air-
craft guns believed to be larger
than any seen before in public.
Men called up for examination
Young Kirsling. member of a
prominent Chicago family, believes plan to determine the exact num-
his relatives are purposely re-
will go into the labor corps for
the customary six months' labor
service, and then will serve two
years in the army.
Men of the classes of 1918, 1919
and 1920—those born in the years
named—of the Sudetenland which
Germany obtained from Czecho-
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Mayor Seeks Advice
ber of sacks of cement, yards of -
punishing him for his gravel and other materials, and Tax Study
Theater the amount of cash needed to VI ′′) UIUUJ *
sponsor the WPA project. । „
Folks Don't Write The School Board already has Mayor Harrell’s study of this
"They could make my bond to-agreed to contribute $7500 of the city s tax assessment and colled-
my nond estimated $23,000 set up as the tion problems was under way to-
share Citv Council day in a series of conferences with
City uncil real estate dealers and other bust-
Consensus of the deelgates was __________________-.,
that hospital managers should morrow if they wanted to," he
“sell" city and county officials on smiled today in county jail. "But sponsor’s share. City Council
the plan of paying out of public they want me to get my fill of balked yesterday at the county's
(Turn to Page 12) (Turn to Page 12) proposal to furnish its third of
the cost in the form of materials
and equipment.
Mayor Harrell asked the county
to go half way with the city in
furnishing cash. The matter will
be presented again to Commis-
Hail! Hail! TCU Freshman Eats Fusca Froehl Larva
Hang a wooden medal on Lloyd
Alvin Monroe, 19-year-old T.C.U.
freshman from Kilgore.
He’s broken all the recent inter-
collegiate records of goldfish
gulpers and mice munchers and
captured fame for the Frog cam-
pus.
He ate a Lachnosterna fusca
froehl larva.
It happened yesterday tn the
T.C.U. Stadium, where Lloyd and
three fellow students—James Me-
caksey, Bobby Blackman and Bil-
ly Jones were working on the
football field. L. A.'s hoe dug up
the Lachnosterna fusca froehl lar-
challenged one of the other boys. | "It tasted sort of like dirt,” the
"Betcha I would for how eater recalled today as Press
much?" L. A. rose to the occa-newsgatherers put him through
va. It was s choice specimen,
exactly one and one-sixteenth
inches long, with a white bodyca
sion. the reportorial clinic.
"A dollar," the others joined in. Question: "Did you experience
With little or no ceremony, L. any after-effects ?”
A. plopped the Lachnosterna fus- Answer: "No, not a wiggle,
froehl larva in his mouth feel fine.”
I
and a brown head. chewed a couple of times and Q Would the feat have been
| "Betcha wouldn’t eat that,” swallowed. I (Turn to Page 12)
sioners' Court as soon as the de-
tailed figures are available. The
boulevard would connect E. Bel-
knap with the new Riverside High
School.
School News
Tomorrow
ness men.
Looking toward .a long - range
policy intended to remove the
cause of tax delinquency and to
step up current collections, the
Mayor met yesterday afternoon
with "six or eight” men and re-
ceived suggestions as to how the
problem can be approached.
Council members, meanwhile,,
proceeded cautionusly with their
study of new term appointments,
including municipal boards and
key city officials. Retention of
City Manager Lewis may depend
upon his success in paring city
, I expenditures, some Councilman ′′
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