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Post No. 148 of the American Legion
today adopted a resolution calling for
the voluntary enlistment of all un-
employed men of military age and
qualifications, to strengthen the army.
The resolution condemned the action
of Congress in considering cuts in
appropriations which, it declared,
would mean virtually an amendment
to the national defense act, reducing
the amount of training to be given
the national guard and other com-
ponents of military defense. The res-
olution -was presented by Col. Clark
M. Mullican.
Congress further was criticized for
considering “immense appropriations
for unemployment” when enlistment
of these men for periods of one, two
and three years “would greatly re-
lieve the present situation.” The plan
called for enlistment of men in all
four branches of the service.
The resolution also demanded im-
mediate enlistment or employment of
all necessary labor in the building of
cantonments at such locations and of
such permanent nature as to readily
permit their conversion in the future
into government-controlled hospitals
for the poor and indigent.
Copies of the resolution were sent
to Congressmen and Senators at
Washington and to state and nation-
al headquarters.
KIDNAPED BANKER IS
FOUND AT BOTTOM OF
DEEP DRY WELL
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 5.—Gordon
H. Sawyer, Tucson banker, kidnaped
Thursday night, was found at the
bottom of a seventy-five-foot iwdll
near the Oracle road, four miles from
Tucson Friday. He was weak but
physicians said he would recover.
Sawyer was found by Dallas Ford,
Tucson detective, and Earl Rogers,
after a fight between officers and
three men and a woman who had
barricaded themselves in an abandon-
ed house near the well. The four, af-
ter exchanging shots with the offi-
cers, flecLfrom the house in an auto-
mobile, heading toward Casa Grande.
Ford and Rogers said when they
finally located Sawyer in the well he
was so frightened he did not want to
he brought to the surface for fear he
would be shot. The well was dry
and the bank official had been wrap-
ped in blankets.
At the Southern Arizona Trust and
Savings Bank, of which Sawyer was
vice president, it was announced $60,-
000 had been demanded for the re-
lease of the man.
Officers were put on all highways
to watch for the kidnapers.
DALLAS, Feb. 8.—Dallas has been
designated as a regional office of the
$2,000,000,000 Reconstruction Corpor-
ation. Warren Andrews of Dallas will
serve as manager of the office.
Nathan Adams, president of the
First National Bank of Dallas, has
been named chairman of the advisory,
committee which will pass upon ap-
plications for loans in the region.
Other members appointed to the
advisory committee were Fred F.
Florence, John W. Carpenter, R. L.
Thornton and Charles Ulrickson of
Dallas, and W. E. Connell, R. E. Hard-
ing and Ben Stone of Fort Worth.
Carpenter heads a committee ap-
pointed last week by Governor R. S.
Sterling to represent the state in co-
operating with the corporation on the
placing of loans.
Personnel of the advisory commit-
tee and tentative plans for operating
the Dallas office were received today
by the Federal Reserve Bank, Eleventh
District, from the Washington office
of the Reconstruction Corporation.
Adams conferred today with An-
drews, who is a former president of
the Texas Bankers Association and a
former vice president of the First Na-
tional Bank of Fort Worth.
Bankers of other localities in the
region will be appointed to co-op-
erate with the advisory committee
regarding loan applications from their
localities.
M’FADDEN URGED
AGAINST HOOVER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Louis T.
McFadden, the Pennsylvania Repub-
lican Congressman who waged last-
ditch fights against the Hoover mora-
torium and reconstruction corporation
bills, was advanced Monday as a can-
didate to oppose President Hoover for
renomination.
Antiadministration progressives are
planning to circulate petitions for Mr.
McFadden’s candidacy in North Da-
kota and file him as a candidate for
the State’s delegation to the ■' Chicago
nomination convention, Senator Lynn
Frazier (Rep.), North Dakota, said
Monday. Previously the North Da-
kota independent Republican Sena-
tors asked Hiram Johnson (Rep.),
California, another moratorium foe,
to run, but Senator Johnson has not
signified he favored such a campaign.
HUNT ON FOR PILOT
POINT BANK BANDITS
HOUSE GIVES GARNER “HAND”
STATE TO ACCEPT DECISION
VOIDING COTTON ACRE-
AGE LAW
Owing to lateness of the season,
J. E. McDonald, commissioner of ag-
riculture, announced Monday at Aus-
tin he will accept as final the trial
court decision at Franklin that the
cotton acreage law is void and will
not attempt to appeal it.
“But the fact the law was on the
books saved the south millions of
dollars by holding up the market thru
two large increases in government es-
timates,” he said. “I look forward
to future action toward a uniform law
in all cotton states.”—Waco News-
Tribune.
BRIEF IS FILED IN VOTE FIGHT
AIR BOMBERS RAIN DEATH ON
FLEEING CHINESE SOLDIERS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Jurisdic-
tion of the supreme court to decide
a case brought by L. A. Nixon, ne-
gro, El Paso, Texas, contesting the
refusal of Democratic election judges
to permit him to vote in a party pri-
mary was challenged Friday in a brief
filed by counsel for the election judges.
When the case wafe argued by coun-
sel for Nixon, the election judges were
not represented by counsel nor did
they have on file any brief. The case
was recently ordered reargued.
In the brief the election judges will
use when the case is reargued, they
contended the appeal of Nixon failed
to raise any question under the fed-
eral constitution.
Nixon asserted Texas, by an act of
the legislature in authorizing the Dem-
ocratic state executive committee to
decide who should be permitted to
vote at party primaries, had deprived
him of rights- under the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the fed-
eral constitution.
The opposing brief declared a po-
litical party has the inherent right to
determine the qualifications of its own
members.
ANOTHER SENTENCE IN
CHEESE FACTORY CASE
Earl Neas, truck driver of Fort
Worth, plead guilty to the charge of
breaking into the Round Rock Cheese
Company plant and hauling off 150
boxes cheese in December, and was
sentenced to serve two years in the
penitentiary, in the district court at
Georgetown last week.—Round Rock
J^ader. .1^...., L
PRISONERS OVERPOWER
SHERIFF, ESCAPE FROM
JAIL AT SAN MARCOS
SAN MARCOS, Feb. 8.—Bob Phelps
alleged forger, and James Delaney,
held for car theft, escaped at noon
Monday from the Hays County jail
after overpowering Sheriff Lee Green.
The sheriff had opened their cell
door to release another inmate. They
struck him on the head and fled from
the building.
Phelps was recaptured shortly af-
terward in the brush near San Mar-
cos. Delany still was a fugitive.
Deputy Sheriff O. R. Springer of
Seguin was accidentally wounded in
the foot by a bullet from Sheriff
Green’s pistol.
HARBIN, Manchuria, Feb. 5.—
Heavy casualties were inflicted by
Japanese air bombers Friday on the
fleeing troops of Gen Ting Chao, who
headed southeast toward Acheng,
leaving Harbin in the hands of the
Japanese.
The occupation was effected after a
devastating bombardment. Several
Japanese shells went off near the
headquarters building of the Chinese
Eastern Railway, jointly owned by
Russia and China,.and Soviet officials
of -the road held an emergency meet-
ing to consider the situation.
The Chinese had put two field guns
in action in the open space in front
of the railroad headquarters and Jap-
anese authorities said they thought
this had been done in the hope of
causing trouble between Japan and
Russia.
Harbin, an important railroad cen-
ter, is second only to Mukden among
the cities of Manchuria. It is the
hub of Russian influence of the Pro-
vince.
DON’T SPEAK DISRESPECTFUL
Pat arrived home looking the worse
for wear—one eye closed, nose brok-
en, face bruised and several other
decorations. ,
“May the blessed Saint preserve
us!” said Bridget, his wife.
“That Dutchman Schwarizheimer,1
said Pat, “’twas him that did it.”
“Shame on you,” said Bridget. “A
big spalheen loike you let a little
Dutchman the size of him to bate you
up. Why—”
“Why Bridget, don’t speak disre
spectful of the dead.”
And Pete McKenzie is again in the
limelight, although his light in the
Huntsville penitentiary may not be
quite as bright as it was in his cell
at San Antonio where he had flow-
ers, radios and books, and other gifts
by some of his admirers. He escaped
as was reported, and was captured at
the home of his father in Missouri.
He appears to be a prisoner with-
cut a prison but perhaps now the
State will accept responsibility for
this “insane” prisoner and keep him
in the penitentiary. Pete killed a de-
crepit old nightwatchman at El Paso.
He was given 99 years. He escaped
and while out and armed with two
guns, is charged with killing Police
Chief Street of San Antonio. Sen-
tenced to the chair he had a sanity
trial and found insane. Some women
and isome preachers slobbered and
sobbed over him considerably and
made him a great hei’o. Most of the
citizens regard him as a 100 per cent
criminal and a real menace to so-
ciety and a good example of what a
fai’ce shrewd criminal lawyers can
make of our court procedure.—
Uvalde Leader-News.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.--The House
today loudly applauded a suggestion
that Speaker Garner be nominated
by the Democrats for the presidency.
The speaker was not on the floor
when Representative Blanton, Demo-
crat, Texas, began discussing the
statement made yesterday by former
Governor Alfred Smith of New York.
Blanton sgid the statement eliminates
Smith from the race “before it gets
started.”
Representative May, Democrat of
Kentucky, asked:
“What would you think of John N.
Garner of Texas for the Democratic
nomination ?”
The House applauded and Blanton
answered:
“John Garner would sweep the
country as it has never been swept
before.” He added, however, that he
did “not have any right to speak for
Mr. Garner.”
Blanton said if Garner were nomi-
nated he would carry every progres-
sive vote in the Nation.
Blanton said “the difference be-,
tween A1 Smith and Hoover is that
Smith is outspoken and Hoover isn’t.”
“A1 Smith is frank,” Blanton said.
“He comes out and says, ‘I’m wet.’
“Mr. Hoover says nothing and he’s
a wet.
“I am unalterably opposed to A1
Smith getting on the ticket. The peo-
ple in my district are 90 per cent
against him.”
Representative Howard, Democrat,
Nebraska, said a constituent wrote
him the country has “three white-
hopes: “Garner, Roosevelt and Rain-
ey.”
“I’m for every one of them,” Blan-
ton said. “I wish they could all be
on the ticket.”
Representative La Guardia of New
York, Republican Independent, inter-
posed:
“I don’t believe A1 Smith lost votes
because of liquor. I believe it was
because of water; the kind of water
in the font when he was baptized.”
La Guardia said if the Republican
party did not adopt a wet plank he
would not support it in 1932.
“I’m going to do everything to keep
a wet plank out of my party,” Blan-
ton retorted.
“But if it goes in?” demanded La
Guardia.
“I am still a Democrat,” Blanton
said.
SEN. NORRIS PREDICTS
DEMOCRATIC PARTY SPLIT
PILOT POINT, Feb. 7.—Search for
three masked robbers who early Sat-
urday looted the Pilot Point National
Bank of $8,000 in cash and $11,000 in
Liberty bond^ spread into all sec-
tions of the State today as efforts
of local authorities to uncover a clew
as to, the robbers’ identity were still
unavailing.
Meanwhile the six Pilot Point resi-
dents held prisoner by the robbers
while the looting was in progress
scrutinized photographs of 100 known
robbers and highwaymen of this sec-
tion, but were unable .to recognize any
as those of their captors.
A finger print expert also searched
the metal door of the bank vault for
a telltale print, but his efforts today
had shed no light upon the mystery.
Texas Rangers were aiding other of-
ficers in a systematic investigation
of the robbery, which was carried. out
by the gunmen without a hitch in a
well-laid plan. City Marshal L. G.
Sitzes was leading the investigation,
here.
■Nitroglycerin was used to gain en-
trance to the vault after Earl Selz,
cashier, had been forced at a pistol’s
point to open the outer of two steel
doors. In addition to Selz, the rob-
bers heldi captive E. Montgomery,
night watchman; J. Winston Peel, as-
sistant cashier; Tom Behee, baker,
and the wives of Selz and Peel. None
of the captives was harmed.
Spread of the alarm after the flight
of the robbers was thwarted by the
robbers’ precautionary cutting of tele-
phone wires.
The Pilot Point bank is a member
of the association which offers $5,000
reward for each dead bank bandit.
PEACE MOVES GIVEN SETBACK
TRY
PRONOUNCING
CHINA NAMES WITH
YOUR RADIO VOICE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Here is
the way educated Chinese, speaking
the Mandarin dialect, pronounce, geog-
raphical names in the Shanghai fight-
ing area, the stress being practically
the same on all syllables.
Whangpoo—As if spelled Whong-
poo.
Kongkew—As if Hong-cue.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 8.—Senator George
W. Nonas, ..Republican Independent
leader of Nebraska, predicted that the
Democratic party will “make a damn
fool of itself,” and said Alfred E.
Smith’s statement regarding the pres-
idential nomination was the beginning
of what may be the party’s defeat in
.an otherwise “cinch” election.
He passed through Memphis on his
way back to Washington from Rrepre-
sentative Quin’s funeral in Mississippi.
“The Democratic party has a re-
markable record for making a damn
fool of itself at a crucial time when
it has the world by the tail and a
downhill pull,” he said. “It is ex-
pected to repeat its usual perform-
ance,” he added, as he pointed to Gov-
ernor Smith’s statement.
“This is truly a Democratic year,
and the election would be a cinch for
the Democrats if they could be har-
monious.”
He said President Hoover would
be the Republican nominee, but ad-
ded, “it ought to be Hiram Johnson,
Senator Borah or Governor Pinchot,
or somebody like that.”
—Photos from Wide World Photos
“ALFALFA BILL” IN
A CHARACTERISTIC POSE
Governor William “Alfalfa Bill”
Murray, of Oklahoma, posed for this
special portrait while in Washington
this week.
DOCTOR IS SENTENCED IN
DEATH OF INFANTS
LUEBECK, Germany, Feb. 6.—
Prof. George Deycke, who assumed
sole responsibility for the death of
76 infants last summer after the ad-
ministration of an anti-tuberculosis
serum, today was sentenced to two
years in prison.
Dr. Alstaedt, one of several co-
defendants, was sentenced to 15
months in prison. Both penitences
were imposed at the end of a long-
trial in which the defendants were
charged with negligence. Another
physician and a hospital nurse were
acquitted.
Chapei—Chah-pay.
Paoshan—Pow-shan.
W oosung—W oo-sung.
Kiangwan—Kee-ang-wan.
Shihtzelin—Shee-zer-lin.
Shilungkow—Shee-loong-how.
Liuho—Loo-huh.
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Depositors are people who get scar-
ed and break a bank and then cuss
it for breaking.—Elizabeth Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—T h e
eleventh day of fighting between the
Chinese and Japanese at Shanghai
passed without definite steps on the
part of the United States and the
three co-operating European powers
to suggest a new peace plan to the
Tokio government.
A week ago today President Hoover
initiated the plan which China ac-
cepted and Japan rejected. The lat-
ter’s statement of its intentions to
treat the Manchurian and the Shang-
hai situations as entirely separate and
to increase its military forces for de-
fence of its citizens and property in
the Shanghai area has halted diplo-
matic approaches temporarily.
Secretary Stimson and the foreign
ministers of other interested powers
are anxiously awaiting outcome of the
fighting which is rapidly developing
into a large military movement. It
now involves a 16-mile area between
the international settlement and the
Yangtze River, and centers about the
defences of Woosung, at the junction
of the Whangpoo River with the
Yangtze.
The Japanese are supported by de-
stroyers in the Whangpoo, and Jap-
anese bluejackets and soldiers are
moving from the north and east
against the Chinese. Foreign com-
manders defending the international
settlement fear this clash may extend
into the settlement.
Through consular )&nd diplomatic
officers in Tokio, Shanghai and Nan-
king, the United States and Great
Britain as well as France and Italy
are calling attention of Japanese of-
ficials daily to the peril in which for-
eigners are placed at Shanghai.
But until Japan makes some over-
ture for submission of a new peace
plan, it seems unlikely the great pow-
ers will submit anf further proposals
to Tokio.
The full statement of Japan’s poli-
cy in the Shanghai situation, made
public by Ambassador Debuchi in
Washington last night, contained no
essential points not previously covered
ly press dispatches from Tokio.
It maintains Japan’s campaign in
Shanghai is for defence of all foreign
interests as well as those of Japan,
and disavows any intention to ac-
quire territory.
IF THREE NEW STATES
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Speaker Garner of the House of
Representatives, who hails from big
Texas, isays that eventually Texas
will be divided into four parts, each
part a State. The advantage he sees
in such a division is largely political.,
from the point of view of one who
is chiefly interested in national poli-
tics. It will mean that there will be
six mare United States Senators in
Washington from the territory which
is now represented by only two*.
Whether that would be an advantage
to the United States is somewhat
open to question.
Some critics of American affairs
are prone to believe that one of the
troubles with the country now is that
it has too complicated a legislative
arrangement. Texas, with all her
great length and breadth, has not been
a badly governed State. The regime
of the Fergusons might be cited to-
refute it, but Dan Moody was a good
Governor, and Governor Sterling-
seems to be a man of understanding
and ability. Moreover, Texas has had
some good local legislators, and has
been represented at Washington by
able and distinguished; men. Why
would it be good to take one State-
fairly well functioning and cut it up*
into four without any guarantee that
the “children” will be as well govern-
ed as the parent State?
Many unhappy things have come to
pass at Nashville because the Repre-
sentatives of ninety-five counties are-
forever vying with each other. There
are only three real divisions of the
State, with the people of West Tennes-
see all having the same moods and
interests, the people of East Tennes-
see another entity, and the people of
Middle Tennessee all having the same
purposes and needs. Perhaps Ten-
nessee would be better governed if
there were only three countie;, each
with a proper representation at Nash-
ville. And perhaps Texas is quite as
well off as she is, without making leg-
islation in the great Southwest even
more complex and unwieldly by mak-
ing four States grow where only one
thrives now.
CAPONE’S APPEAL TO
BE ARGUED TUESDAY
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Arguments on
the appeal of A1 Capone, convicted of
income tax evasion, will be heard be-
fore the United States Circuit Coui't
of Appeals Tuesday. The gangster
chieftain is under sentence of 11 years
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
and he has been confined in the Cook
County jail since October, appeal bond
having been denied. , , ^
Leader Want Ads Always Get Results.
CAUSE AND CURE
Thus far our thinkers seem unable
to agree on the causes of this world
depression. There is a wide diversity
of view. Many find the roots of the
panic in the world war. Calvin Cool-
idge disputes this and lays it all to
the orgy of spending into which the
world plunged some time after the
war. May not the war have helped
to cause this? Not only have men
failed thus far to agree on the caus-
es, they seem unable to come at the
cure. But the cause and the cure and
the prevention of such hideous condi-
tions must be found, for the world can
ill afford, if, indeed, it can endure
their repetition—Public Service Mag-
azine.
A citizen is a man who demands
better roads, bigger schools, a new
post office—and lower taxes.—Nash-
ville Southern Lumberman, i m*.
LOVING COUNTY VOTES
FOR BRICK SCHOOL
PECOS, Feb. 7.—Loving County,
Texas’ baby commonwealth which be-
came the last organized county in the
State through an election last Sum-
mer, is to vote on a modern school
building.
An election has been called for $5,-
000 worth of five-yean bonds to con-
struct a modern brick structure at
Mentone, the county seat. At present,
a two-room frame structure—used
jointly as a school and church rep-
resents the only educational facilities
in the county.
SHERIFF FILES APPEAL ON
TWO-YEAR SENTENCE
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 6.—-Woody
Townsend, Sheriff of Bastrop Coun-
ty, convicted on a charge of extor-
tion, has appealed his sentence of two
years.
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