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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1939
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6 In Health
Dept. Listed
For Dismissal
‘Expense Purge' At
City Hall Marks
Others For Victims
Dismissal notices were sent
around today to six of the seven
health department employes who
will be dropped from the city’s
payroll next Monday in carrying
out City Council’s economy pro-
gram. ’
Dr. I. P. Barrett, acting health
and welfare director, named the
following to be dismissed-in-out- .
ting % the -department's payroll
$9300 a year:
W. S. Head, barber shop In-
spector, salary $1920 a year.
Mrs. Zelma Rice Robertson,
beauty shop inspector, $1920.
C. W. Trebosius, mosquito
control inspector, $1020.
Mrs. Minnie Graves, sanatar-
Ian. $1320.
Charlie McGaff, laboratory
assistant (part time), $500.
- Mrs. Nadine Griffith Earl, .
clerk, $900.
One meat inspector, salary
$1680, will be named Later for dis-
missal.
Dr.’ Barrett said that Mrs. Earl
will retain her job until the re-
turn of Miss Marguerite Cum-
mings, registrar of vital statistics
who is on sick leave without pay.
City Manager Lewis pointed out
. that the reductions in health de-
Dressed Up for Royalty
Rain Benefits
Outweigh Wind
Damage Here
.40-Inch Shower Aids
Grains, Vegetables;
Partly Cloudy Forecast
Rainfall benefits to farm and
garden crops today outweighed
Fort Worth’s damage toll from
wind, lightningand slippery
streets, which accompanied a sud-
den night thunderstorm.
The wind, blowing in guests up
to 50 miles an hour, was blamed
for the East Side crash of a pri-
vate plane, injuring two Poly resi-
dents. Slippery streets caused 12
minor auto collisions.. *
Lightning Hits Twice
Lightning stabbed two resi-
. dences, with small losses, and
blacked out North Side homes and
industrial plants by electrical ser-
vice interruptions.
The rainfall, .40. inch, was a
boon to late grains and spring
vegetables. Small hailstones
caused no damage. Weatherman
Paul Cook forecasts partly cloudy
skies for tonight and tomorrow,
with minimum temperature near
60 degrees.
Gust Is Blamed
The plane crack-up, which In-
jured Walter Hadsell, 27, of 2800
Avenue K. and L. S. Byrd, 33,
3628 Avenue H, was blamed on a
LA shift in the wind’s, direction which
a marked the thunderstorm's ar-
rival.
Press Scholarship Contestant Happy
Duce Joins
| Hitler After
I French Snub
But Alliance Is 9
No Surprise to
European Powers
• TOKIO, May 8.—War Minis-
r ter Gen. Seishiro Itagaki said
d today that Japan may conclude
F a military agreement with Ger-
many and Italy. The Domel
I News Agency gave out the fol-
— lowing statement by the war
y minister: “The moral spirit
4 which animated the anti-com-
. intern pact is deep - rooted.
* Therefore, If Germany and Italy
desire, it is not impossible that
Japan will conclude a military
agreement with the axis pow.
2 ers.".
The broadest grin in this picture is on the face of 17-year-old Julian Huzarevich—the fellow
standing on the box-who was awarded a series of free flying lessons when he and 50 other youths °
Inspected Municipal Airport Saturday, as guests of The Fort Worth Press, the Ed Ritchey Flying
Service and Airport Manager Bill Fuller. Grinning, too, were the other boys—all contestants for
the aeronautical engineering scholarship offered by The Press to some January or June high school
graduate in this area. Mr. Ritchey will give the free lessons. Julian Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Huzarevich, 2407 Refugio. Watch tomorrow's Press for additional pictures of The Press
aviation party.
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partment personnel does not mean
that the inspection services will
be discontinued. Other employes
on the health payroll will be as-
signed additional duties, he said.
, The health department is one
of four municipal branches order-
* ed by Manager Lewis to make
payroll reductions totaling $113,4
284 a* year. Others are the fire,
police and engineering depart-
ments.
Ninth Pedestrian
Is Traffic Victim
Hugh L Sorrells, 81,
Takes Step Backward
• Into Path of Car
An elderly pedestrian stood for
a tense moment near the middle
of the street. Two cars almost
abreast were moving toward him.
Watching the first, he stepped
back—against the side of the sec-
ond.
Hugh L. Sorrells, 81, of 2408
Market, was hurled to the pave-
ment, He died five, hours later
in a local hospital.
Funeral services were schedul-
ed at 2 p. m. to-
day at Shannon’s
North Side Funer-
al Home, led by
Rev. M. Feland,
pastor of Saginaw
Methodist Church.
Burial was to be
at Saginaw.
The accident, at
5 p. m. Saturday
at NW 25th and
Gould, brought
Tarrant County’s
traffic death toll
for the year to 16,
the city’s to nine.
All nine killed in
, Fort Worth have
been pedestrians.
Mr. Sorrells,
DEATH’S
SCORE •
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Autocides
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taking his.- usual-------
evening stroll,
was walking south across 25th.
St. An auto driven by Edwin
Langstown, 20, of 2709 NW 29th,
approached the intersection from
the east. Another car was pass-
ing it in the same direction. Mr.
Sorrells took a step back. Wit-
nesses said he would have been
safe had he stood still.
.Both drivers stopped and ren-
dered .aid. Police exonerated Mr.
Langston. The injured man was
—taken to a hospital in a Shannon’s
ambulance, died at 9 p. m.
Mr. Sorrells came to Fort Worth
15 years ago from Arkansas, and
lived with his son, Walter D. Sor-
rells. Three other sons and two
daughters survive: J. T. of Con-
roe, Robert of' Oklahoma, Cleve of
' Springfield, Mo.; Mrs. Eula Wal-
ters of Mountain Home, Ark., and
Miss Pearl Sorrells of Spring-
field, Mo., and a sister, Mrs. Julia
Brixley of Holdenville, Ark.
Japanese Claim
From her new wardrobe, especially made for the visit of the
King and Queen of Great Britain, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt poses
above in two attractive dresses. The evening gown at left,. In pastel
shades of mauve chiffon, emphasizes a two-tone train of lime green
and petal pink. Flowers are bunched where the colors meet. At
right is A casual dinner gown with a tailored white crepe top, skirt
of red and white star print and a wide bluebird leather belt.
Stock Prices
At Midday
Bv United Press.
NEW YORK. May 8.—Stocks fluc-
I unit'd aimlessly today In one of the
dullest sessions since last June. Most
pivotal issues drifted lower, but many
less prominent shares maintained fair
gams.
Chrysler opened 1 point lower and
then extended its loss to more than a
point while General Motors held with-
in' a minor fraction of its previous
close. Westinghouse Electric, Doug-
las Aircraft and Dow Chemical were
down a point and more.
Mail order shares were mixed after
early, firmness.
Only 2 Salaries
Top $200,000
1938 Recession
Brought Salary Cuts
To Corporate Heads
By United Press.
Settlement Seen
In Oil Squabble
Compromise Due
To Aid Both Parties;
Pact May Be Signed
Germans Live In Danzig
But Corridor Is Polish
Flynn Says Hitler's Demands, If Honored,
Would Lead to Ruination of Poland
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Only
two industrial leaders received sal-
aries in excess of $200,000 last
year, it was revealed today in an-
nual corporation reports' for 1938
Byrd, piloting his own two-
seated, open cockpit ship, was at-
tempting to land on a private field
near his home When the wind
switched. He attempted to gain
altitude, but the plane was flung
into a pole at Ayers and T. & P.
Railway tracks, snapping a wing.
Mr. Hadsell, who suffered a
deep scalp cut, was to be released
today or tomorrow from Meth-
odist Hospital. The pilot sustained
a sprained back.
- County Agent M. C. Counts de- .
scribed the rainfall as "very op- By nitedPress.
portune."===========-== WASHENGT
“It was enough to make the
moisture meet and its benefit to
gardens and field crops will be
great," the agent said. .
The rain was not heavy enough have reached a stage where an cawu ^ an, anu Jussuercu Jus-
to damage grain, but sufficient agreement is possible, it was torically, the German claim to
to carry it along toward to har- learned today. Danzig is one of the best she has
vest stage, he explained.
Reports to the County Agent’s
office indicated that precipitation
was general over the county. No
farm damage from hail or wind
was reported to Mr. Counts.
WASHINGTON May, 8. - Nego-
tiations in the dispute between
international oil companies and
Mexico over the Mexican govern-
ment’s expropriation of oil lands,
4
By JOHN T. FLYNN y
--7-hg Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance Writer. .
NEW YORK, May 8.—An effort is being made in the propaganda
to make it appear that an important economic issue is involved in
the latest claim of Germany upon Poland. That claim is for ces-
sion of the city of Danzig and a highway across the Polish Corridor
from Germany proper to East Prussia—a corridor across the Corridor,.
It would be well to keep the ----------------------------
issue straight, as this is one of the
three spots which Germany may
select for her next drive—the
other two being Lithuania and
Yugoslavia.
First of all, and considered his-
Danzig is one of the best she has
had in all the claiming she has
done lately. Danzig is a German
Marriage of Ickes’
Son Disapproved
By UNITED PRESS
Announcement of a military al-
liance between Italy and Germany
caused little concern in most Eu-
ropean capitals today. On the
contrary, it was regarded as likely
to promote a settlement of Ger-
many's claims on Poland without
military force.
Belgian quarters pointed out
that Italy is opposed to military
action by Germany against Pol-
and, and would not enter such a
pact if Germany mediated force.
Nazis Use Old Tactics
In Paris it was believed that
Premier Mussolini may seek a
peaceful solution, now that he is
in a military alliance with his axis
partner, Adolf Hitler.
Germany, however, pursued its
usual course in preparation for
wringing concessions from anoth-
er country. The Nazi press, in
hailing the axis, agreement, inten-
sified its attacks on Poland, de-
manding that “terrorism" against
Germany be halted at once.
'Warsaw Must Decide’
Hermann Wilhelm Goering's na-
tional Zeitung of Essen, said:
"One asks whether Poland will
continue to simulate readiness to
negotiate, while at the same time
allowing the rape of Germans in
Pomerellen, Posen and Silesia.
"Warsaw will have to. decide
whether it wants to create a situ-
ation where it is a question of an
Although settlement was not
assured, the United Press was in- _ __
formed that a relatively quick city. It is overwhelmingly pro-
showdown was almost certain. 5 -
17 Firms Interested
Final Sales Tax
Drive Begins
O'Daniel Says Only
, filed with the Securities and Ex-
change Commission.
Walter Gifford, president of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., received $209,350 and Robert
- C. Stanley, board chairman of In-
. ternational Nickel Co., of Canada,
Ltd., was paid $204,700.
9 More Solons Needed
To Pass Bill to People
By United Press.
AUSTIN, May 8. — This week
will witness the final drive for a
sales tax in the Legislature. Fate
of the proposal to submit it to
referendum in a constitutional
amendment depends on nine mem-
bers of the House, Governor
O’Daniel said.
The resolution on its last vote
lacked the needed 100 to join the
Senate in submitting the plan to
popular vote. If nine can be won
over to join 91 of the 150 mem-
bers O'Daniel says are for it,
adoption of the resolution is as-
sured. It has been amended in
the House since the Senators vot-
ed for it, but little difficulty is
expected in getting a conference
agreement, once the sales tax is
passed by the House in any form.
Vote Due Any Day
A vote may come any day. It
is not due in regular course until
Wedmesday, but if its supporters
can round up the total 100 votes
they will - have enough to suspend
all impeding rules. In a Sunday
morning radio broadcast the Gov-
ernor expressed confidence the
resolution will win this week.
Chief battle of .the week in the
Senate will be over the "fair
trade” bill to let manufacturers
The annual reports for last
year, the bulk of which already
are on file with the, SEC, indi-
cated that the 1938 business re-
cession resulted in salary cuts for
most corporate officials. Complete
reports from the motion picture
industry, which paid highest sal-
aries in 1937, were still lacking,
however.
General Motors Corp. executives
took sharp reductions from the
previous year, both in salaries and
bonuses. In 1938, William S.
Knudsen, president, was paid
$124,465 in salary and a bonus pf
1767 shares of common—stock
valued at $69,248. The previous
year, his salary totaled $140,380
and he received a $166,820 bonus
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Damage Reported
Lightning struck two homes
with minor damage, disrupted
service on a 12,000-volt Texas
Electric Service Co. circuit to
North Side industrial plants and
burned out three transformers
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Windsor Boycotted
From British Radio
LONDON, May 8.—The British
Broadcasting Co., which 'controls
radio programs in this country,
decided today to boycott a speech
which the Duke Of Windsor is
scheduled to make from Verdun
today.
Officials of the company, after
a hurried meeting, decided not to
rebroadcast the speech, regarding
it as untimely, coming when the
King and Queen are on the Atlan-
tic, bound on their peace mission
to America. ’
Thousands of British listeners
who have short wave sets prob-
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ably will be able to pick up the
speech, however. > I
Mexico expropriated properties
of 17 oil companies in March,
1938. The 17 were subsidiaries
of four major groups: Royal
Dutch Shell, which is British-
Nazi. The Corridor was an in-
tegral part of Germany before the
war. The Sudeten country, Aus-
tria were not. But the Corridor
Family of Bride
Objects to Couple's
set a minimum price at which
trade-marked commodities may be
sold. If the bill, already passed
by the House, reaches the Senate
floor its passage is considered
likely. ............--------------------—
Other Bills Up
Appropriations, the bill to give
counties r cent a gallon of the
state gasoline tax for local road
‘Belligerent Rights’
SHANGHAI, May 8.—A Japan-
ese spokesman said today that
Chungking, temporary Chinese
capital, is a legitimate Japanese
objective because of Japan’s a"bel-
ligerent rights."
The spokesman said a "state of
-wacefaentrodesp tathe.Nence.n * IE Gina:
building and bond retirement, the
land vacancy bill, a bill to, license
real estate dealers, and the bar-
bers' priee-fixing bill, are other
topics that threaten to send the
session into a second extra week.
first time the Japanese—have
claimed belligerent 'rights. '
, Tomorrow, the alloted 120 days
IFT Y—==*=-------After
that, members will go on half
pay of $5 A day.
owned, and three Americas com-
panies, Standard Oil of Califor-
nia, Standard Oil of New Jersey,
and the Sinclair interests.
British Interests were estimat-
ed to be worth $250,000,000, and
American properties approximate-
ly $200,000,000. Mexico challenges
these valuations. But the claims
and counter-claims of value have
not entered into the negotiations
now being conducted, the United
Press was informed, Donald R,
Richberg, former head of NRA,
represents the combined oil inter-
ests and has just returned from
Saltillo, Mexico, where he con-
ferred with- President Cardenas.
Compromise Seen
The basis of adjustment sought
was understood to be for manage-
ment and operation of the prop-
erties by their former owners but
with sufficient Mexican govern-
was.
Status Has Changed.
However the present state of
this land has altered. Danzig it-
self remains German. But the
Corridor has ‘greatly altered its
racial content. The Poles have
pursued a constant pressure upon
the German population there and
have carried on a persistent In-
filtration .of Poles until today the
population of the Corridor is over-
whelmingly Polish while the Ger-
man population is not very large.
That being so, the future peace
of the world, certainly its present
peace, calls for the recognition
of the Polish character of the
Corridor as an accomplished fact.
It is essential to the economic
life of Poland, being its only out-
let to the sea, and it embraces
the new port which Poland has
built, Gydnia, which now is more
important as a port than Danzig.
A wise solution would be for the
cession of Danzig to Germany and
the definitive recognition of the
Corridor as Poland’s.
Pittsburgh Elopement
By United Press.
CHICAGO, May 8.—The honey-
moon of Robert H. Ickes, 25, foster
son of Secy, of the Interior Harold
L. Ickes, and the former Marcelle
Charlotte Levine, 19, was clouded
today by objections from the
bride's family. . *
ment participation to avoid an
actual restoration of property.
Such a settlement would be - Moun NM
achieved by long term contract But Germany will
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Don't Call Firemen! It's Only Dust
I never be
satisfied with this, whatever Herr
Hitler may say. Non-aggression
pacts with him are utterly mean-
ingless. In his now famous speech
in reply to the President he de-
clared that Germany stood ready
to offer non-aggression pacts to
all the 31 nations named by the
President and in almost the same
breath he denounced the ten-year
non-aggression pact made only
four years ago with Poland and
tae similar- pact, made only seven
months ago with England.---[
Hitler's demand is for a road- |
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The couple eloped and were
married Saturday night at Lisbon,
Ohio. The bride's brother, Ber-
nard, said his family had opposed
the couple’s romance during the
four years she had been acquainted
with Ickes,------—--------—
He said his sister left home
Wednesday night, and- later wired
that she was with a girl friend at
Pittsburgh, where Ickes is em-
ployed as an engineer. Ickes
hotified him of the marriage yes-
terday in a telegram asking the
family’s blessing.
Levine said his mother, Mrs.
Bessie Levine, was in Dallas, vis-
iting her mother.
"I don't approve of this and I
know mother won't," he said. “I
marriage.
eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth. “If the Poles answer in the
affirmative by continuing acts of-
• violence against Germans, then
Germany would act accordingly."
France Rejected Offer
London reported that Mussolini
entered the military alliance only
after France had rejected an ap-
parent invitation to settle his
Mediterranean "aspirations."
Informed sources said Mussolini
demanded no territory but asked:
Two seats for Italy on the gov-
erning board of the Suez Canal; ■
a free port for Italy at Djibouti,
gateway to Ethiopia; a new ar-
rangement regarding the French
railroad from Djbouti to Addis
Ababa; and a new agreement on
the status of Italians in French
Tunisia........—----
Spaniards to Demobolize, J
An encouraging word came '
from Madrid, where the Italian
and German troops were prepar- 1
ing to go home, and Gen. Fran-
cisco Franco took the first step
towards demobilizing 1,000,000
men he has under arms.
BODY,FOUND IN RIVER
AUSTIN, May 8.—James Wal-
ter Short's flight to the Colorado
River after an altercation here,
led to an all-night search from
rowboats. His body was recov-
ered yesterday near a point where
he sank suddenly after wading
into the river channel. Short, a
36-year-old laborer, will be bur-
ied here this afternoon.
The foreign troops were expect-
ed to start home immediately aft-. ‘
er the Madrid “victory” parade
to he held within the next two
weeks.
In the war in China, Japanese 1
troops and airplanes started a
general offensive in northern Hu-
peh Province, seeking to annihil- 1
ate a Chinese force of 20,000 un-
der Gen. Tang En-Po, which is
the main Chinese force in the fifth •
war zone.
Test Pilot Killed
By United Press.
CHUNGKING. China. May 8.— -
George Weigel, an American test
pilot for Central Aircraft, was
killed yesterday when a Chinese ,
plane in which he was taking off -
stalled and went into a sideslip. '
Probable Pitchers
In Major Leagues
By UNITED PRESS
NATIONAL N
Lee, Chicago at New York,
Schumacher, weather cloudy.
Tobin, Pittsburgh at Boston,
MacFayden; cloudy.
Weiland, St. Louis ab Brooklyn.
Fitzsimmons, cloudy. •
Vander Meer, Cincinnati at
Philadelphia, Butcher, cloudy.
AMERICAN
Folks along E. Lancaster have had a “dust storm" all their own. recently. When this contrap-
tion operated by the paving firm comes by, they run for cover behind closed windows and doors. Be-
hind, the truck which pulls it and hidden by the cloud of dust is a rotary broom, made of heavy, J....... ..aommnguo
steer bristles. When—the—truek—mover-itrexolves and the. dust, billows. Texas Bitulithic. Co. of- land. Hudlin,’cloudy
Helais-explain that it’s used to clean the pavement base ahead of asphalt work. The rugged surface-= .-------
of the concrete base makes it impossible for the job to be done with hand brooms or scrapes.
Man-Made Lightning, With
Power to Burn, Introduced
By United Press. , - in.
SHARON, Pa., May 8.—Man-made lightning with the same de-
structive, tire-producing qualities as that produced by nature, made -
its formal debut to the world today in a spectacular demonstration at
the Sharon plant of the Westinghouse Electric A Manufacturing Co. ,
There is one important difference between the new‘"hot" lightn-
ing shown to scientists and news---------------------------------=2......7
papermen here today and artifi-
cial lightning previously produced
by man.....the ability to set fire to
the object it strikes. *
This difference was demonstra-
Merrell, New York at Chicago, led in a series of tests staged
Smith, clear. : by P. L. Bellaschi, -Westinghouse
Ross, Philadelphia at Detroit, research engineer,' to show the
Harris, cloudy. ■ different effect of the old "cold"
Chase, Washing tor at Cleve- lightning- and—man's latest at-
tempt to,duplicate the works of
rarup_____________-_________
Ostermueller, Boston at Stinature
Louis, Van Atta, cloudy
The “cold” lightning was put to
the test first. With an ear-split- 1
ting roar and a blinding flash,
3,000,000 (m) volts and 100.000
ampheres of electrical power was s
sent crashing into transmission .
poles, piles of sand, a sheet of
metal and a new shirt. The effect
was aweinspiring. W
The sand was scattered, the y
metal sheet was scorched and
dented,” the transmission pole was ‘.
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