Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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SENATE BILL ALLOWS MINIMUM PRICE FIXING
Only Trade-Named
Goods Included
In New Measure
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Fair Trade Act Requires
Merchandise Be Sold to
Retailors on Contracts
AUSTIN — (UP) — A fair
trade merchandising bill to al-
low manufacturers to establish
minimum prices on trade-identi-
fied goods by contract passed the
Texas senate today but suffer-
ed a setback in the house of
representatives.
The senate vote on the amend-
ed house bill was 20 to 10.
However, when Rep. Paris Smith
of Bay City asked the house to
concur in senate amendments,
the members voted G4 to 56 to
order the bill printed in the jour-
nal and to defer action until
Monday.
Rep. Abe Mays of Atlanta, who
made the motion to postpone,
said that the senate had substi-
tuted a new hill. Smith said it
had followed the house bill with
the addition of provisions that
manufacturer-retailer contracts
must name their state agencies
for legal service.
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Legion Invites
War Generals
To Convention
CHICAGO—(UP) — Forty-sev-
en wartime generals already
have accepted invitations to be
distinguished guests of the Am-
erican Legion at its annual na-
tional convention here, Sept. 25
UNDIVIDED
PROFITS LEVY
DISCONTINUED
WASHINGTON — (UP) —
The house ways and means tax
subcommittee today approved
its 1930 tax bill, discontinuing
the undistributed profits levy
and imposing an 18 per cent tax
on corporations.
The bill will be reported to the
full committee tomorrow and
probaby will reach the house
floor Monday.
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British Envoy
To Discuss Pact
With Molotov
MOSCOW — (UP- — William
Strang, special envoy of British
Prime Minister Neville Chamb-
erlain, arranged an appointment
for today with Premier and
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav
M. Molotov to discuss the pro-
jected Anglo-Soviet-French pact.
Strang, central European ex-
pert of the British foreign office
and a participant in the Munich
four-power conference last Sep-
tember, from which Russia was
included, arrived at noon from
Warsaw for what is expected
to be a one-week visit.
He conferred shortly after his
arrival with the British and
French ambassadors, telling
them of his instructions in con
nection with Chamberlain's ef-
forts to break a two-months
to 28. It will make this one of [deadlock and bring Russia with
oioc.
Reporter
43RD YEAR
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1939
NUMBER 38
Hallettsville Bank Robber Captured
HOUSE BEGINS DEBATE ON
1940 FEDERAL RELIEF BILL
the greatest assembly of gener-
als in the peacetime history of
the United States.
The list of acceptances thus
far includes one full general, one
lieutenant-general, 21 major gen-
erals and 24 brigadier generals.
Nearly all of them now are on
the retired list.
Heading this starred array of
wartime officers will be Gen.
Charles P. Summerall, former
commander of the 1st Division
of the American Expeditionary
Forces in France. The rank of
general was bestowed upon him
Feb. 23, 1929.
The only lieutenant - general
who will be at the Chicago con-
vention will be Robert L. Bul-
lard, also of the 1st Division.
He is the one who wrote that
famous message at the opening
of the Second Battle of the Ma
rine, July, 1918, concluding with
the words, "we are going to
counter-attack."
her 2,500,000 trained troops into
the Anglo-French "peace front."
Strang's principal task is to |
find a formula for overcoming
Russia's insistent demand that
before Russia's vast fighting
strength is thrown into the
peace front, Britain and France
must extend their anti-aggres-
sion guarantees to protect Es-
tonia, Latvia and Finland, which
form a buffer along the soviet
union's northwestern frontier
against a direct German attack.
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Royal Pair to
*
Embark for Home
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia —
(UP)—King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth sail from Hali-
fax for England tonight, after
a month's visit to the new world
which began May 15 with their
arrival at Quebec.
They broadcast their farewells
and thanks to the Americans by
radio this afternoon and will
sail tonight on the Empress
Britain, tired but pleased over
the achievements of their trip.
The farewell speeches were
made after luncheon today and
were broadcast over Canadian
and United States net works as
well as being carried to most of
the British empire by short
wave.
At least 15,000.000 people saw
the royal pair during the tour.
For the second time during
the Canadian visit the king and
queen are to break precedent
today when they receive news-
papermen and photographers to
"personally bid them goodby
and thank them for the work
they have done in connection
with the tour."
The previous exception to
precedent was at Ottawa. Prior
to then never before in the his-
tory of the British monarch
had the king and queen person-
ally received correspondents en
masse. This departure was con-
sidered to be in line with moves
to "democratize the throne."
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Partly
cloudy, unsettled and warmer.
Maximum temperature yester-
day 101; low this morning 76 at
2 p. m., 103.
WEST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy tonight and Friday.
EAST TEXAS — Partly clou-
dy tonight and Friday.
U. S. Almost Stops
Dietrich's Trip
NEW YORK — (UP) — For
a time yesterday it seemed that
Marlene Dietrich might have to
sail for Europe without even a
change of stockings for her mil-
lion dollar legs.
But after a good deal of dick-i
ering, while the 1,126 other pas-
sengers aboard the Normandie
fumed and fretted, she got her
34 trunks and two bags out of
hock to Uncle Sam. She turned
the trick with jewelry valued at
$100,000. That, along with certain
other guarantees, satisfied reve-
nue agents that they had enough
insurance on the $284,000 they
said she owed in income taxes.
Britain 'Cornered'
Boasts Goebbels
BERLIN — (IIP) — Propagan-
da Minister Paul Joseph Goeb-
bels last night boasted to 15,000
students and workers at the
Sportpalast that British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain
joined the Munich four-power
conference last September "be-
cause we had him cornered."
WASHINGTON — (UP)
—Administration relief ex-
ecutives conferred with Pre-
.'.'dent Roosevelt today and
asked his aid in speeding up
congressional action on the
l!>40 relief appropriation.
Those who met with the
president were Administra-
tor Aubrey Williams of the
National Youth administra-
tion and Administrator F. C.
Harrington of the WPA.
They pointed out that
while the lit use is now de-
hating the relief supply hill,
with the expectation of pass-
ing it before the weekend,
the measure still must go
through the senate and re-
ceive final approval hy July
I. Some White House offi-
cials characterized the situa-
tion as "very nasty" because
of the possibility that delay
might leave the relief orga-
nizations without funds to
provide lor persons on their
rolls.
They noted that there are
no funds available to meet
payrolls after .June 30, if
congress fails to complete
action by that date.
WASHINGTO N— (UP) —
The $1,710,600,000 reief program
for 1910, proposing a drastic
shake-up of WPA policies and di-
vorcement of politics from re-
lief, started through the house
today with indications that it
would strike a body blow at state
and city "racketeers."
The appropriation is $45,800,-
000 below the amount requested
by President Roosevelt, and is
$823,205,000 less than was voted
for the current fiscal year end-
ing June 30. It was estimated
that, an average of 2.019,180 per-
sons could lie cared for on WPA
rolls .each month for the year
beginning July 1
A committee minority report
criticized the failure to propose
decentralization of relief, but
said that the pending bill is "not
as objectionable" as past legisla-
tion in which the administration
was given a "blank check" to
spend billions as it desired.
House leaders planned to al-
low debate to continue through
today and said that a Saturday
session would be called unless
the appropriation is disposed of
before than. They believe few
major changes will be made, al-
though many amendments will
l-o offered.
Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D.,
Va., later obtained unanimous
consent for the house to meet at
11 a. m. today and on Friday in
order to complete work on the
measure Friday. Amendments
See DEBATE Page 5
Tax Measure
Loses Again
In Texas House
AUSTIN — (UP) — A staunch
minority in the Texas house of
representatives defeated for the
fourth time today an attempt to
pass a sales and natural tax
constitutional amendment to
pay' for social security projects.
The vote was 93 to 53, short
of the two-thirds majority need-
I ed to suspend rules so senate
I joint resolution No. 12 could be
brought up for another direct
vote.
Three members opposed to
S.IR 12 meanwhile expressed
their views. Rep. W. W. Bridget's
cf El Paso, 69, who served in the
Texas legislature 35 years ago
I with such men as Vi':a Presi-
I dent John Nance Garner, U. S.
Sen. Tom Connally. and former
Gov. Pat M. N'eff, exhorted
young members opposing the
| sales tax to remain steadfast..
S.IR 12 may pass the legisla-
ture and be adopted by the peo-
ple because no alternative is of-
fered "but no power can make
them vote for the men who be-
trayed them in this legislature",
said Bridgers.
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Young Kansas
Citv Manager
■' r>
Officer Recovers
$1,200 Loot In
GERMANY IS
FOUND GUILTYBan(Iits Auto
OF FRAUD
I rtini newspaper reporter
t< ;i( ting city manager i>l
Kansas City, in !wo years is
youthful One /achmaii. I'or-
rnerly secretary to Mayor
Siryee Smith, he was appoint-
ed alter resignation of < .!y
Manager II. F. McKlroy.
WASHINGTON — (UP)—'The
German-American mixed claims
commission, charging the Ger-
man government with commis-
sion of fraud, today ruled in
favor of American claims for ap-
proximately $50,000,000 damag-
es growing out of the wartime]
Black Tom and Kingsland dis-
asters.
Supreme,.Court Justice Owen j
.1, Roberts, the impartial umpire
of the three-man international!
tribunal, said that evidence con-
vinced him that a German ag-
ent. before the commission, had
presented fraudulent evidence'
which led to the commission's;
previous decisions, rejecting the
American claims.
It was believed to be the firstj
time an international tribunal
had found a major power guilty
of fraud.
o ——
Unemployed Youth Nabbeil
As He Parks In Front
Of Holing Postoffice
ACSTIV—(I P) _ Public
safety department officials
announced today that finger-
prints of the man who rob-
bed the bank at Thorndale on
April 18 coincided with those
of Ralph <;resham, 2(1. cap-
tured is Wharton county af-
ter the People's State bank
at Hallettsville was robbed
yesterday.
The Thorndale robbery is
only one of si\ in Texas this
year that remains unsolved.
No charges have been filed
in connection with it.
Stale police left here today
for Hallettsville to question
(>resham concerning the
Thorndale robbery.
Publisher Dies Labor Union
Of Heart Ailment | Peace Plans
Are Abandoned
Investigation of
Money, Banking to S
J ^ i;.
Soon
William Buckner Accused of Using
4Cutie Lobby' in $1,000,000 Swindle
NEW YORK — (UP) — The
government cited a list of pros-
pective witnesses impressive en-
oiugh to delight any movie
scout's heart today and then
began to tell how two bond sales-
men employed wine, women and
song to engineer an alleged $1,-
000,000 swindle in Philippine
railway bonds.
First witness against William
P. Buckner, Jr., erstwhile play-
boy, and four others, was red-
haired Noel Carter who said she
met Buckner while dancing at
the Hollywood restaurant and
who told of late parties she said
were staged hy Buckner and his
partner William J. Gillespie.
Miss Carter was one of the so-
called "beauty lobby" by which
Buckner allegedly sought to
sway Washington legislators in
engineering his deals.
"Mr. Buckner always paid the
bill," the trim Miss Carter tes-
tified.
She told of one party staged
in Washington, but added rue-
fully that she did not have a
good time because she became
air sick on the flight from New
York.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Wil-
liam P. Maloney read the names
of other prospective witnesses
to the jury during his opening
statement. The names included
Loretta Young, once reported
Buck tier's prospective bride; Pre-
sident Manuel Quezon of the
Philippines; Miriam Hopkins,
Frank Morgan, Herbert Marsh-
all, Sam Rosoff, New York sub-
way contractor, and Byrnes Mac-
Donald, secretary of New York
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia.
Both government and defense
went out of their way to coop-
erate with the flaming-haired
Miss Carter who immediately af-
ter testifying sailed aboard the
Normandie for London to appear
in the English version of "Hell-
zapoppln."
WASHINGTON
President John I
— (UP) •
Lewis of the
HENDERSON — (UP) —
George \V. Bowman, 51, general
man::cer of the News Pubish-
ing company, died at his home
"lie'succumbed to a heart ail- j Congress of Industrial Organiza-
ment from which he had suffer-: tions said today that
ed for the last year. peace negotiations between the
Bowman entered the news-jciO and the American Fedora-
paper field when he acquited , |jon nf j^abor "are impossible"
the Venus Express, 25 years I
ago. He later published the Has-'"™1 wl!1 hc abandoned.
ca Item, then moved to Celburne
where he organized the Cle-
burne Times. The Times was
later consolidated with another
paper and ater became the Cle-
burne Times-Review.
He is survived by his widow
and two children.
Son of Famed
Editor Dies
NEW VORK — (UP) — Ralph
Pulitzer, Sr., oldest of the three
sons of the man who founded
a newspaper empire, died late
yesterday at the Harkness pav-
ilion of the New York medical
center.
His death followed by three
days his 60th birthday anniver-
sary. It resulted from complica-1 ^
tions following an abdmonial op-
eration on May 1.
At his bedside were Mrs. Pulit-
zer, the former Margaret Leech,
his second wife; his two sons,
Ralph, Jr.. and Seward; and his
sister, Mrs. William S. Moore.
Lewis marie the announcement
after a session of the CIO execu-
tive board which he convened
here yesterday to discuss plans
for a drive to bring 20.000,000
unorganized workers under the
CIO banner. At that time he
said that AFL union "raiding"
tactics would not he tolerated
and that reprisals could be ex-
pected.
lie said that the executive
board is unanimous in the be-
lief that "peace, as such, as a
secondary consideration to or-
ganizing the unorganized."
He revealed that the CIO peace
negotiators, including himself,
and Vice Presidents Hillman and
Philip Murray, had drafted a re-
port "whoh shows how impos-
sible it is" to dicker with such
representatives as "AFL Vice
Presidents Thomas A. Rickert
Matthew Woll."
Bodv Kidnaped
Child Is Found
HALLETTSVILLE, Tex. —
(UP) — Ralph Gresham, 20, en
employed, of Boling, Tex., was
i in the Lavaca county jail here
j today to face bank robbery charg-
| es.
Gresham was captured only a
; lew hours after the Hallettsville
' state bank was robbed of $1,-
200 cash. Officers traced the
m r* • i 'icense number on the 1939 mod-
I o begin Soon • el Ford coupe in which the
t"* lone gunman escaped and chief
WASHINGTON* — (UP) — j Deputy sheriff Buck Flournev
The $100,080 investigation of the of Wharton countv was wait;ng
nation's monetary and banking at Hollng whon Gresham arriv
policies which may lead to a ] ed in his home town
complete overhauling and settle; Gresham parked his autcmo-
a long standing feud between the }Piie jn front of the Boling post-
heads of the treasury and fed- j office. Flourney arrested him
era! reserve system, will get un- before he left the automobile and
derway shortly treasury officials ; ered h $1 200 bank loot
current were notified today. ,
It directs the 'investigating from the back seat of ,Ue au~
committee to consider and rec-i ' ,,
ommend a national monetary vous Ro er
and banking policv bv which nervous heavy-set gunman
federal authorities' "shall ^ entered the Hallettsville bank
, ■ , , * , ,.. . yesterday while Cashier M. 11.
guided and governed and to "Bozda > alone_ Poinli a
study and determine the char-. isl0, „ h h wmdo£ 0f
actor of future governments. the tellel,s cage where Boz(1a
machinery necesary to fulfill j was working> the rob5er demand-
a I" '-v , led: "Hand over wnat you have."
The committees action was a |[e scooped up the monev. all
triumph for Chairman Marnner|in billSi and left when u,,zcla
S. Lccles of the federal re-1 toltl him that the vault was lock-
serve system whose feud with j ^ He sped southward toward
Secretary of the Treasury Mor- I Wharton county almost running
genthau, Jr., over respective au-1 down several persons in the
thcrity of their agencies in the street.
field of money, credit and bank- Flourney left for Boling imme-
ing. has been one of the most jdiately after learning that the
sizzling in the upper new deal autom. bile used by tne gunman
strata. was registered from there. He
The pair are poles apart on spotted Gresham as he arrived,
most fiscal matters. Eccles is Officers said that Gresham was
one of the leaders of the "big without work and made his home
spending" bloc in the new deal with his mother who operated a
beer tavern at Boling. The Hal
and a proponent of centralized
bank credit control. A multi-mil-
lionaire, he has clashed repeated-
ly and in barbed phrases with
Sen. Harry F. Bvrd, IX, Va.. and
other conservative democrats in
congress who oppose the now
deal's deficit spending policies.
Iettsville robbery was the sixth
bank holdup in Texas in recent
months. All but one of the rob-
beries have been cleared up,
with the gunman who robbed
the bank at Thorndale the only
one uncaptured.
Hereford Men
To Meet Friday
The board of directors of the
six-countv Hereford association
recently formed here, is to meet
at 1 p. m. Friday at the Blue Bon-
net hotel for a report on the
membership drive, to determine
the budget for the year and at-
tend to other pertinent mat-
ters.
Directors expected to lx> pre-
sent for the meeting are:
Bert Wallace, Jayton, presi-
dent; Ralph Collins, Roscoe, vice
president; Ray Boothe, city, sec-
retory; J. D. Patterson, Pea-
cock; Price Maddox, Colorado
Ctty; and R. M. Simmons, city.
CLYDE. O.
II. L. Mver
10- weeks-old
died in the
-(UP) — Sheriff
^ said today that
laldon Baker Fink
surging waters of
Green "Creek where he was hur-
led alive after being abducted
from a crib in his grandfather's
home.
The body of the infant, child
of divorced parents, was recov-
ered from the muddy waters
yesterday 12 hours after he was
reported kidnaped and Federal
Bureau of Investigation agents
had begun an investigation.
Coroner D. W. Philo, who rul-
ed the death "homicide by
drowning", said the baby was
alive when thrown iiV'o the
water, probably from a passing
automobile.
Police Chief Albert Lee of
Clyde said he had no clues.
Kansas City Gunman's Case, Pending
5 Years, Disposed of in 30 Minutes
Amoy Included
* h .m
In Blockade of
Foreign Area
City Ominously Quiet as
Tanks Move Up to Crash
Through Defense Units
TIENTSIN — (UP) — Japa-
nese authorities today moved ad-
ditional forces to the borders of
the blockaded British conces-
sion and announced that their
"punitive measures" will be in-
creased unless an early settle-
ment of their demands of the
i the British are met.
"The situation is growing
! worse," the Japanese spokesman
j said adding however that he be-
| lieved " a local settlement." even-
I lually will be reached.
He emphasized that Japan is
determined to convince the Brit-
ish that they cannot continue
supporting Chinese nationalist
; Generalissimo Chang Kai-Shek
| and permitting his terrorists to
use British controlled areas as
bases for anti-Japanese activity.
As daylight approached the
city was ominously quiet and
Japanese tanks, which were
moved up to face the British
defense units yesterday, still
«ere in position to smash
into the Britsh area at any
moment.
Japanese charged that the
British forces in the British
concessions had mounted a ma-
chine gun and had pointed it at
.Japanese guards who were
.--earching and who were in some
cases stripping persons entering
or leaving the concessions.
The blockade of the British
and French concessions of Tient-
in, which house many British,
\meri an and French, and other
foreign civilian and troops, was
completed.
The blockade was extended to
Amoy to the south where the
foreign area, Kulangsu, was sud-
denly cut off.
The Kulangsu action was with-
out warning and it was believ-
ed that a food shortage might
might result there. One British
steamer ran the picket line
around the island colony with
food supplies and Japanese
threatened "immediate action
against the shfp."
DANGER OF CLASH
INCREASES IX TIENTSIN"
TIENTSIN* — (UP) — Dang-
er of a clash during Japan's
military blockade of the British
and French concessions here in-
creased today when jubilant
Japanese were reported to be
organizing a parade through the
British area to an anti-British
mass meeting.
Streets in the British and
French concessions were desert-
ed and commercial activity ceas-
ed as (he Japanese sentries turn-
ed back swarms of Chinese work-
ers attempting to get through
the barricades to their jobs.
Food prices trebled as the
Japanese imposed their food ban,
although a Japanese foreign of-
fice spokesman in Tokyo had
indicated earlier that the entry
of foodstuffs to the concessions
would be permitted.
Scot Decides Not
To Become Farmer
LONDON" (CP) — David
Kirkwrod. Scottish laborite from
Glasgow, today rescinded his of-
fer to become a farmer on a
rugged deer preserve owned by
American-born Viscountess As-
tor because he suspects she Is
just trying to get rid of him.
In the house of commons Kirk-
woud demanded that 2.000.000
acres of Scots held as game
preserves by the wealthy be
utilized for the support of
human beings, not animals."
I.ady Astor jumped up and
challenged Kirkwood, who is a
machinist and never has worked
011 a farm, to make a living on
her deer preserve on the Island
of Jura off the Scots coast.
The "bad boy of Glasgow" ac-
cepted before he realized that
Jura is oine of the most primi
tive of the inner hebrides, sur-
rounded by whirlpools, rushing
tide
and swept
ov
Atlantic
KANSAS CTTY — (CP) —The
case of a north side gunman
which had been pending for
five years and which, perhaps
as much as any other one thing
precipitated the now famous
Kansas City cleanup", was
concluded in ihe space of HO min-
utes yesterday when the de-
fendant pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to three years in pri-
son.
The gunman was Charles Gar-
gotta. He admitted attempting to
kil former Sheriff Thomas B.
Bash. Bash, returning from a
party with his wife, arrived at a
downtown corner as four men
"rubbri'l out" Ferris Anthon on
the night of Aug 12, 1933. Bash
shot and killed two gunmen,
the third escaped, and Gargotta.
after emptying his automatic at
Bash screamed: "For the love
of God. don't kill me."
Gargotta was acquitted in
the Anthon murder. He was
tried ir, federal court for pos-
sessing an automatic stolen from
the Kansas City. Knns., national
guard armory. He was convicted,
but the case was reversed on ap-
peal. County Prosecutor W. W.
Graves continued Gargotta's
case in the Bash assault through
27 court terms, then last fall
secured dismissal of charges.
The Jackson county grand
jury reindicted Gargotta. Gar-
gotta begins his term Monday.
Today Kirkwood decided that
he isn't going to be a farmer,
for Lady \stor or anyone else
Oxford Group
For Conscription
OXFORD. Eng. — (UP) —
The Oxford Union, which startl-
ed the world six years ago by
voting that it would not fight
for king and country, today ad-
opted a motion welcoming con-
scription.
The voting was 423 to 32fi. At-
tendance of undergraduates was
a record
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