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THE WEATHER FINAL
Brownsville and the Valley: Part
ly cloudy to occasionally unsettled — M
Monday night and Tuesday, pos- nil A Q L| L. T W
slbly with local showers; not much I v I I 1 eV Eaa I
change in temperature
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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—No. 244 BROWNSVILLE TEXAS, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934 EIGHT PAGES TODAY 5c A COPY. )
j IN OUR j
[valley^
FINE EXAMPLE OF HOW THE
rpeedlng ol Home Loans helps out—
Was given in a short story j»
Sunday's Heraid,
Which told ol J. C. Looney, Hi
ialgo county HOLC attorney.
Having paid over $15,000 in taxes
on Saturday morning.
On loans completed that day by
his office.
Hidalgo county, being no diiter
en in that respect than other
counties—
Certauily can use that tax money.
And now! with a Valley branch
in oixration.
Just lots 01 tax money should be
coming in a hurry,
To the various cities, school dis
tricts and counties in this area.
• • •
VALLEY VEGETABLE GROW
crs association busies itsell with a
survey as need for relief to farm
ers unable to properly iced their
work stock, and as a result—
We may expect to see lp excess
cf $100,000 in leed provided for
this section by the state relief
administration.
R. C. Cralt ol the state organiza
tion is making a Valley survey, and
finds need for this sort of rebel.
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FIRST REAL CITRUS CENSUS
in a number ol years will be under
taken in the near future—
By state ann federal authorities.
Count ol citrus trees as released
lor the past few years—
Has been merely a compilation i
and tabulation.
Worked out on paper op a basis
of the numbet ol trees planted.
L Added to those already planted,
r With no definite knowledge of j
ihe number ot trees which ha’e
died
This new ceiw.ua. however, will j
*ee men ip the Held actually count - ;
mg the trees on every piece ot land
in the Valley .
When it is finished we will know i
exactly where we are at/'
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT IS j
what attracts the attention ol peo
ple nowadays whether it be the
new streamlined automobiles, or a
new style in ladies hats, or a new
sort ol celebration.
That’s why the Valley Mid-Wmwr i
Fan has always held $ fas .matron
tor residents ol sections oiu^ide
the Valley—
That’s why the Tarpon Rodeo
idea is going over so big—
And that* why Willacy county's
Onion Fiesta ought to be male
more of.
Right now wt bespeak tor this
Onion Fiesta more interest and
more Valley v ide cooperation next1
year.
Thu Onion Fiesta cap be made
a big thmg. can be made to bring
Willacy county and the Valley just
a whole high ol a lot of real pub
licity
Lets keep the thought in muid
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NO INCOMING MAIL FOR THE
Valley on the tram coming m late
Sunday night
And no outgoing mail leaves on
the northbouna Sunday night train
Post-olfice department is <er
lalmy cutting down on the service,
and is certainly discommoding lots
of people.
hope the savings are commen.-ur
ate with the inconvenience Valle*
business men aie suffering.
What with no airmail, no nml on
holidays and new no Sunday mail,
this section is kmda the stepc'Pld
of the postal authorities.
• • •
NICE WORK WAS THAT DONE
by representatives ol Valley scnools
at <hc district music meet at Kings
vill» last Saturday.
Just a no the evidence that our
school autliorii.es are turning nit
a well rounded set of youngsters—
Able to hold their own in a fight [
or a frolic
Which is as it should be.
• • •
PRICE OF BEANS HAS BEEN
st. at $1.75 for 85 per cent or bet
*cr US No. I* and at $1.50 for 70
to 85 per cent grade.
There's money m beans at that
price.
The available supply justifies the
price, and thanks to the fine co
c pc rat ion between the new shippers i
association ar » the growers asso- I
ciation. the price will be paid and I
Valley growers will benefit. j
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FINE SIGN OF THE TIMES (
was the interest displayed m Valley i
/echool district elections.
a Too little interest op election day I
unably means lots of kicking i
knocking ..bout the way schools
ure run. afterwards.
Better to have the thmg fought i
out at the polls and then to settle <
dowp to work. i
1
Charges Against Rogers Dismissed
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JUSTICE SAYS
ACTION UP TO
FEDERAL MEJ
Commerce Departmenl
Has Jurisdiction,
Court Decides
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• Special to The Herald)
RAYMONDVILLE, April 8- F
H (Slats* Rogers. Valley pilot, wa
1 eleasea from jail and charges o
operating an airplane while in
loxicaled were dismissed Monda'
morning by Justice ol the Peac
P D. Li&sner alter a hearing.
Rogers was jailed late Satuida:
afternoon after the plane he wa
piloting struck a fence as he at
tempted to lami it. resulting in thi
injury of Rogers, his three passen
gers and two children who weri
watching planes fly passengers.
Justice Lissner, in dismlssmi
charges against Rogers, held iha
the case came only within thi
jurisdiction ol the department o
commerce and any action into ta(
accident must be taken bv thi
federal department
The department of commerce wa
notified of the accident by Ray
mordville authorities unmediateh
after the accident.
None o! the iiersons involved 11
th accident was injured seriously
In the plane with Rogers wen
Claude Moran, John Butler anc
John Emerson. Richard Moms. 12
and Julia Alice Duddleston. 8. re
ceived cuts and bruises when thej
were allegedly struck by a wini
of the plane when the-ship caught
in a barbed-wire fence and swerv
ed from its course.
'Rogers received a deep cut ovfi
his eye in the accident
Aapan-Chinese
Trouble Brews
PEIPING, China. April 9 -Ft—
Chinese newspapers charged Mon
day that the Japanese have launch
ed eflorts to strengthen their in
fluence in northern China.
The Peiping Chronicle said IOC
Japanese military’ officers had been
dispatched to Chahar. Suiyuan,
Shansi and southern Hopei pro
vinces to “get acquainted” with
Chinas strategic centers.
Other newspapers reported the
breakdown of negotiations lor the
return to China of the Malanvu
Pass in the great wall near the
tombs of the Tsing dynasty.
Valley Stock Feed
Assurance Given
(Special to Tile Tie aidj
HARLINGEN April 9— A. L
i?rooks, secretary of the Harlingen
chamber of commerce, announced
Monday on his return from Austin
‘.ha. he received definite assurance
that Valley fanners will obtain f»*ed
lor work animals as an emergency
lelief measure.
Brooks said that lie believed
action would be taken this week
to send feed to the Valley.
The visit of Howell Kidd of state
relief headquarters here Sunday
wa> believed to be in connection
with the proposed animal feed re
lief. but A. H Piper, county ad
.niristrator. stated that the visit
was of routine nature and did not
concern the animal feed proposals.
Germany Hopes For
Debts Moratorium
BASEL Switzerland, April 9. i/P)
—Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. president of
the German reichsbank. Monday
pxpressed the hope that Germany’s
:reditors would accept a moratorium
yn the transfer out of Germany of
funds for the amortization and in
terest payments on long term pri
vate debts.
On arriving here for a confer
?nce with creditors, he denied that
tie asked new loans, saying; 'But
[ hope an agreement between Ger
many and her creditors will be pos
sible to enable Germany to remain
* big customer for raw materials,
for only in that way can she pav
tier debts."
Britain ‘Interested*
In Germany Rearming
LONDON. April 9 — Sir John
Simon. British foreigi secretary,
old the house of commons Monday
hat the British government is giv
ng “very serious” consideration to
Germany’s contemplated increased
xpenditures on her army. navy, and
lir forces.
Sir John was cheered by the
egislators as he made the an
louncement.
He declared
“I have instructed our ambass
ador at Berlin to make inquiries
»f the German government on the
ubject."
p
Japs Oust
45 American
• Showgirls
TOKYO. April 9. 1*1—Police,
' cold to the beauty of 45 Ameri
i can showgirls whose charms
M have packed Japan's largest thea
ter for the last six weeks, order
ed their early departure Monday.
The company, known as the
American Revue Troupe, headed
by A. B. Marcus and including
75 members, was notified it must
leave Japan on the first liner
alter completion of the Tokyo en
gagement April 15.
j The action will force cancella
. lion of several weeks' booking in
: Nagoya and Osaka
The troupe arrived m Tokyo
i from San Francisco on February
s 23. Members' transit visas ex
pired March 28 Police granted
an extension until April 15. A
■' further extension was refused.
* Since the police move was in
conformity with the law. the
■ United States embassy was un
able to act officially. It was un
! derstood. however, that embassy
attaches had informally asked
1 the foreign office to intercede.
4 ARE KII I FI)
AFTER QUARREL
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Blame Jealousy In Deaths
Of Man, 58, Young Wife
And Two Tots
EUREKA SPRINGE. Ark.. April
9. iP>—Accepting as a motive the
Jealous rage ol an elderly husband
over attentions ol a younger man to
his wile, officials sought Monday to
reconstruct details of a trag ?dy
which took the lives ol Warren Da
vis. 58. business man. his 19-year
old wife and two small children
alter the couple had returned home :
from a dance and quarreled.
The four were found Sunday m i
their home here by Mrs. Katherine
Brown, sister ot* ihe dead woman,
the heads of the mother and chil
dren crushed by blows from a ham
mer, their throats slashed. Davis
apparently had killed the three and
then slashed his own thfoat as lie
i>at beside the body of one ot the i
children. Police Chief C. 3. Black
burn said.
A hammer and a razor, both'
bloody, were found in % bedroom '
where Mrs. Virginia Davu the;
mother, lay with her arms about the
body of her two-year-old daughter,
Dixie.
In an adjoining bedroom thr body
ol Davis was found beside that ot
a four-year-old daughter, Mildred.
Physicians who examuKn the:
bodies ;>aid blows from a hammer1
I apparently had caused the death ot j
the mother and children, and their '
throats had been slashed with a ra- j
zor. Davis’ throat was slashed.
Chief Blackburn said an invest!- (
Ration revealed the couple had quar
reled at a dance they attended Sat
urday night when a young man be
came attentive to Mrs Davie.
The tragedy was a climax to do- j
mestic difficulties over a period ol
several months, he said, addme that i
Mr and Mrs. Davis had been es-1
j trailged until recently.
Strike Closes
Hudson Plant
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DETROIT. April 9. <P. — The |
Hudson Motor Car companv an
nounced a shut-down, effective at
1 p. m.. Monday, because of mabil
. lty to obtain parts, particularly
those manufactured by the Motor
Products company, where a strike
is in progress
The shut down was announced
by E. Edward Schipper. public rel
ations representative of the com
pany. who said “the plant will re
main shut until we get a new
source of supply or the strike at
Motor Products is settled
AUTO RECOVERED
Brownsville police have recover
ed a 26 coupe stolen from Arvel
Biker of Harlmgen Saturday.
The car was found parked in the
Brownsville business district late
Saturday night.
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FALSE CLUES
RETARD HUNT
FOR BARROW
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Police Will Get No
Rest Until Outlaw
Is Captured
KANSAS CITY, April 9. —
Southwestern peace officers went
to work Monday with the knowledge
that there would be no rest for
them until Clyde Barrow is cap
■ tured
Accused of a dozen slayings, the
phanton desperado and his woman
companion. Bonnie Parker, still
were at large following their latest
adventure In crime—the slaying of
Cal Campbell. Miami. Okla . con
stable.
Also Hunt Dillingcr
At the same time officers were
under orders to watch for another
elusive desperado. John “Wooden
Gun ' Dillingcr. now reported to be
in the southwest.
Week-end developments in the
search for the two:
Discovery of Barrow's abandoned
motor car with two bullet holes in
the w’ind-shield, near Ottawa. Kas..
approximately 100 miles from
where the killer and his two com
panions released Percy Boyd. Com
merce. Okla . chief of police
who was kidnaped folowmg the
slaving of Campbell.
A letter from Raymond Hamilton,
escaped Texas convict, to a Dallas
lawyer, disclaiming any connection
with Barrowf’s activities since the
$4,000 robbery of a Lancaster. Tex.,
bank. Feb. 27.
.May Try Border
Benef expressed by Texas offi
cers that Henry Methvm. who es
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Girl’s Slayer
Dies In Chair
41
BELLEFONTE Pa April 9. UP>—
Richard 'Big Slimi Bach, six-foot
six-tnch youth, died in the electric
chair at Rockview penitentiary'
Monday for beating 19-year-old
Rose McCloskey to death in Fair
mount Park. Philadelphia, after he
had stoned her escort into un
consciousness.
The towering 24-year-old Phila
delphian walked calmly to the death
chamber, maintaining silence.
Vet Goes on Trial
For Slaying Wife
EL RENO, Ok la.. April 9. < de
selection of a jury' in the trial of
Virgil Brown World War veteran
charged with beating to death his
wife. Marie Elmsley Brown, pro
ceeded slowly Monday.
Mrs. Browns mother, from Wind
sor, Ontario, was expected to attend
the trial. Her daughter's bodv was
found on the highway 11 miles wet*
of El Reno last fall and Brown was
arrested a month later at Shawnee,
Okla. He has been held 'n jail here
since without bond.
Fourth Victim Of
Hotel Blaze Dies
LONGVIEW April X (JPi — The
fire which destroyed the Longview
hotel here 10 days ago claimed Its
fourth victim Monday when Mrs.
H. E. Peck of Shreveport, La., died
in a hospital. She suffered a brok
en back when she jumped from the
burning building
Others who died were Don F.
Safford. Sam Craig and D T Jones.
Man Takes Life
PORT ARTHUR. April 9.—*V
Despondent after he lost his job a
few days ago. M E. Sanor. 28. took
his life Sunday. Justice E. B. Moye
at Nederland returned a verdict oi
•suicide by po.soning .self-admlnis
tcred.'’
Sanor was found lying beside a
road near Nederland. He identified
himself before he died. The body
will be sent to Hanoverton. Ohk>.
for buriaL
Illness Is Fatal To
Lawrence E. Bennett
Lawrence E Bennett, retired
engineer, who resided for a consid
erable length of^mne in Browns
ville up to 1931. died in a San An
omo hospital on April 4. according
10 word received by friends nere
Monday.
Mi Bennett, who was in his 70s
wa. in charge of the taking of 1930
census in Brownsville and was
widely known over the entire Val
iev. having come here during the
early development days, and at me
time owning property near Mis
sion
A. an engineer he had traveled
extensively, had helped in the con
struction of railroads in many parts
of the world, and had done notable
work in China. Siam and Spain
According to the report received
here, he had lieen ill for a long
t me prior to his death.
BOUNDARYflEN
VALLEY BOUND
Efforts to Be Made to Speed
Development Work On
Rio Grande
(Special to The Hernia)
SAN BENITO. April 9—An eT
lor* to speed up proposed Valley
developments will be made o; a
conference ol International Boun- i
dary Commission chiefs to be held
nerc this week, it is announced by
W E. Anderson, consulting en
gineer. who has returned from a
trip to El Paso where lie conferred
with commission chiefs.
The commission is considering
1 among other things, plans w’hich
would result in a development in ,
this section along the lines of the j
work done in the Tennessee Vall.y.
The I B.C. at present has charge :
of the flood control work in thit
section.
Members of the commission are
now working toward a new treaty
with Mexico over waters of the Rio
Grande in keeping with proposed
developments.
L. M. Lawson, head ol the Amtr
j Iran section, and Armando Sania
cruz. chief of the Mexican section,
.»re to attend the Valley conference!
along with engineers Origea, Armor.
Keeler and Josea.
Suspects Released
MARSHALL. April. 9. *.*Pi—A -IV n
and woman held as suspects ill the
slaying of Wade McNabb. ex-con
vict. near Waskon. Tex., last week
were released Monday because of
lack ol evidence against them.
Dist. Atty. Woodall discount*!
any thought that Raymond Ham
ilton. also a former convict whu tad
been sentenced to 263 vears imyris-1
onment. might have been 'uv jived
in the slaying.
Relief Bond* Signed
AUSTIN. Apr.I 9 i/F —Gov. Mir
iam A. Ferguson. Charley Lock rut.
state treasurer, and W. W. Healc,
secretary of state, Monday sill*!
7.935 Texas relief bonds. The boi <U
were signed by machine
George H Sheppard, statu comp
troller, planned to sign the bond
Tuesday as the registering agent
Negro Wounded
(Special to The Hcraldi
HARLINGEN. Apnl 9.-A near
ing will be held in city corporation
court here at 9 a. m. Tuesdiy as the
result of the wounding of Cha* Mo
Knight, negro. at the home ot
Jimmie Grimes, negro, Sunday.
McKnight was wounded in the
arm with a 25 automatic, according
to investigating officers.
Appeal Withdrawn
MERIDIAN. April 9.—(J*» —Ken
neth L. Combs, convicted here last
week on a manslaughter charge <n
connection with the .slaying of J
Owen Carpenter in 1925. withdrew
.his aopeal Monday and accepted 3
two-year sentence.
His case was one of the last to
be tried in Texas under the man
slaughter law. repealed in 1927 bul
in force at the time of the shying
PLANE PASSENGERS
W E. Harrison and M Roud ar
rived Sunday on the plane from
Mexico City.' Andres Herrera came
in from Tampico.
Geo. Viteri left Monday morning
tor Tampico.
NOT GUILTY’
PLEA ENTERED
BY CHURCHMAN
Hoover - Smith Issues
To Be Aired At
Cannon Trial
WASHINGTON. April 9. »API—
John J. Wf!*on. avsblant federal
district attorney said Monday in
criminal court that the govern*
merit "will show that Bishop
James Cannon. Jr., converted and
appropriated to his own use a
considerable part" of a eontnhu*
tica by E. ('. Jamieson of New
Irek for use against Alfred E.
Smith in the 1928 presidential
cs ~p»ign.
WASHINGTON. April 9. i/Pl—
Bn hop James Cannon. Jr., and Miss
Ada L. Burroughs Monday pleaded
‘•not guilty" in criminal court to a
charge that they coaspired to violate
tile corrupt practices act by adure to
report all the Antt-Sunth presiden
tial campaign contributions they
received in 1928
Miss Burroughs answered first m
a quiet voice. Cannon, speaking loud
enough to be heard throughout the
court room, then said "not guilty.*
Air Religious Views
Indications that issues that leav
ed a large part in the Hoover-Smith
campaign more than five v>sr.i ago
would enter into the trial proceed
ings came when the court and coun
sel framed a question to test the
Jurors on their religious prohibition
and political views.
Twelve persons were *o tht
Jury box Immediately after the ar
raignment.
The text of the questions nvolv
lng religious views which were ask
ed collectively of the 19 men and
two women in the Jury box follows:
Eight Prejudice
"Does the fact that Cannon is
charged with opposing Alfred E
Smith, the democratic presidential
nominee in 1928 on the ground that
he was a member of the Roman
Catholic church and because .aid
Smith was opposed to the tilth
lendment to the constitution of
the United States prejudice vou
against said Cannon?
“Do you hold any religious pre
judices preventing you from riving
to the defendants. Bishon James
Canon. Jr., chairman of *he hoard j
of temperance and social erric-e of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, and Ada L. Burroughs, an
employee of the Anti-Saloon Lea-1
gue and a member of that church
a fair and impartial trial on he is- ,
sues involved?"
Kidnaper Of
Girl Hunted
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CHICAGO. April 9 Police
were searching Monday for a
youth about 18 who was reported to ,
have kidnaped 3-year-old Dorette
Zietlow by offering to find her a
nickel."
The child's sister. Lois. 12. told
police she and her little sister
were playing in their grandmother's
yard Sunday when the young man
seized Dorettes hand and ordered
her to come with him When she
held back and began to cry. Lois
said, the youth offered to “find her
a nickel."
The sisters’ mother is in the Chi
cago State hospital at Dunning.
Tabasco Election
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION. April 9.—Two mem
bers of the old school district board.
H. V. Williams and Fred Ochoa,
were returned for another temi at
the Saturday election and ^ablo
Combe was elected to fill the ex
pired term of one board member
who did not run for re-election.
The voting follows:
H. V. Williams, 375: Pablo Combe,
380; Fred Ochoa. 375: Renaldo Car
denas. 357; Carlos Johnston. 358:
and E. B Reyna, 358.
Flashes From
A. P. Wire
WASHINGTON. — Wholesale
violation of the collective bargain
ing requirement of NRA agree
ments was charged in the house
Monday by Rep. Wood (D., Mo.|.
In a 30-minute defense ol he
aims and accomplish merits of or
ganixed labor. Wood contended a
•‘conspiracy" was behind the ef
forts of industrialists to defeat the
recovery law‘a guarantee of em
ployee freedom to organiar and
bargain.
WASHINGTON. — Hugh S.
Johnson was en route to Florida
Monday afternoon to join Pres.
Roosevelt's yachting party.
EL RENO. Okla.—A jury ol
farmers and business men. quali
fied for the death penalty, was
selected Monday to try Virgil
Brown, «or I be murder of Ins
secret bride. Marie Elmsley
( Brown, member of a prominent
Ontorio family.
Al'STIV—Stricter enforcement
of the cigaret tax act netted the
state $289,441 more in the first
thiee months of this year than
in the some period last year, the
comptrollers department report
e* Monday.
WASHINGTON.—Enlarged ted
eral regulatory powers over grain
exchanges and eventual broaden
ing of the authority to cover cot
ton and other non-grain commo
dity marts was recommended to
the house agriculture committee
Monday by Chester II. Gray, leg
ifdative representative if the
American Farm Bureau Federa
tion. •
SARNIA. Ont.—One man was
killed and several others were
hurt in the explosion Monday of a
tar compressor in the plant of the
Imperial Oil Co., here. The com
pressor was in a small building
of the plant and fire which fol
lowed was confined to this struc
ture. The damage wa* said to bt
•slight.”
RELIEF WORK
TO BE CHOSEN
Project* of Major Value
Only Continued In
New Set-Up
Decisions on county projects
which have been under the RFC
.-111 be studied at a meeting at I
San Benito Wednesday morning
and the most worthy projects will j
be selected to be continued under
‘he new set-up. Augustin Celaya
state representative, announced
Monday.
The meeting will be held at 9:30
o'clock at the city hall at San
Bemto.
Or.ly projects held to be of major
importance wilt be continued un
der the new relief set-up.
Rep. Celaya announced that the
following officials are requested to
ce present at the meeting:
Members ol the comm»«sioners
court. Cameron county engineer
city officials oi county cities, man
agers of chainbtrs of commerce and
junior chambers of commerce. ;
members of the county relief board
county administrator and super
visors, the county agent and man-1
agers. directors and engineers ol |
va'.er districts.
Wednesday May See
Insull U. S. Bound
ISTANBUL, April 9 t>*N—United
State Ambassador Robert P. Skin
ner announced Monday that Sam
uel Insull might be placed aboard
a vessel sailing for America Wed
nesday.
He said American agents expect
ed to reach a final decision with
in a few hours.
If the Chicago fugitive is started
on his homeward voyage Wednes
day. It probably will be aboard the
American export boat Executive.
Yarbrough Trial
Delay Is Granted
AUSTIN. April 9 OPi—Trial of
Cal Yarbrough of Belton on a charge
of murdering his adopted daughter.
Dorris. 16. was delayed Monday be
cause of absence of a defense wit
ness
The state announced ready tor
trial and hoped to proceed toward
selection of a jury Only 79 out of
300 veniremen summoned for ser
vice responded.
NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG-NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS
Washington by George Durno — New York by James McMullin
WASHINGTON
By George Durno
TUG-O'-WAR—A political divin
ing rod goes into action at the
> National Capital on May 1. It will
materialize &» the 22nd annual
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
Pres. Roosevelt, his much-criticis
ed Brain Trust, other Democrats
und a tot of political onlcokers will
b«* listening for what‘4 divined
Lots of watei lias failed to itow
down the St. Lawrence since the
US.C. of C. assembled her* a year
ago and the New Deal hole cards
ttL were being dealt.
m 9 m
Last spring the U. S. Chamber
was a pretty chastened body. Its
big guns has long been noisy in
any community but those first
hectic days of the •‘revolution’’
silenced the battery.
Men who han hired, fired, loaned
•inr called at will in the old days
crowled into dugouts. They offered
no word of criticism and only hop
tc the enemy barrage would let up
enough for them to see daylight
again.
Now for several months the
Chamber of Commerce rulers have
been breathing fresh air. The
agenda for next months meeting
demands that “a permanent basis
cf business recovery” be evolved.
It won't be Hearts and Flowers
this time. A lot of the violins have
been shelved for ofl-kai tubas.
There are those who think a
ilock of off-ke> tubas might be
able to produce a fortissimo Bronx
cheei from th public.
• • •
I advance recipes can be taken
as an Indication of the whole menu,
U S Chamber chels are planning
to serve a big bowl ol fear piping
not
Foi instance, a New York invest
ment company recently called up
or, its 1000 correspondents here
an . abroad to report on conditions
as is The information was sought
to protect over a hundred million
dollars in trust for investment
Compilation anc digest of the in
ation brought forth a pretty
fair statement of what might be
called conservative news in these
hectic times.
The final report declared com
merce and industry were still
aafnatmg because business men
generally "misunderstand,' a-e
•frightened* b> the Roosevelt ad
ministrations radical departure
from old and accustomed practices
• • •
To quote other snatches directly,
tt mess men fear they will be
“ft rther regimented, regulated, bull
dozen, investigated, taxed." etc.
This fright is inspired, says the
report, by suc:i things as the Se
curities Act. the Stock Exchange
bi' .the Wagner labor Mil. the
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SENATE GROUP
BUCKS F. D. i
CLOSEJALLOT
Vote New Commission
For Regulation
Of Exchange
WASHINGTON. April 9. *»>—
The New York Stock Exchan ,e scor
ed a smashing victory in the sen
ate banking committee Monday by
a 10 to 8 vote to create a new com
mission to regulate the exchanges
instead of giving jurisdiction to tha
federal reserve board and the fed
eral trade commission.
1 psetN F. D.’s Plan>
The committee adopted an amend
ment to the stock market nil offer
ed by Sen. Glass <D.. Va.t, upsetting
plans of the bills authors and Pres.
Roosevelt to have the exchange*
regulated by the two existing gov
ernmental agencies.
As it now stands, a :omim»ion
of three members appointed by the
president and confirmed by the
senate would be set up to exerciao
all the {lowers the bill jiigmally
proposed to turn over to the reservo
board and the trade commission.
Friends of the original legislation
planned to carry their fight to tbw
senate floor, and with Pres. Roose
velt's expressed support, were hope
ful of final victory.
Fight Thought Won
One of the warmest battles over
the stock market bill when It first
came out was centered on the pro
posal for control by the federal
trade commission, with the -totk
exchange and other critics mking
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Politician Slain
On Election Eve
CHICAGO. April 9 t/h— Illinois
will have a primary election Tues
day but Joseph Trirno. politician
in Chicago’s “bloody twentieth*
ward, will take no part In It.
They found his body In the street
Sunday, with bullets in his back.
He was a precinct captain In a
ward where there Is bitter strife
for control of the democratic or
ganization. but he was also seen
talking with a young woman short
ly before his death. Police are un
certain whether politics or jealousy
actuated the slayer.
They will keep their eye on the
twentieth tomorrow, nevertheless, for
it Is a ward with a history of blood
shed.
Rock Slide Down
Mountain Kills 3
WEST POINT. N. Y.. April 9. ./Pi
—A crashing rock slide down pre
cipitous Storm King mountain on
to a scenic highway left three
motorists dead Monday and three
others injured.
The avalanche loosed rocks rip
ped down the mountain side with
out warning late Sunday, killing
Mrs. Otto Sielheimer, 28. and her
8-year-old son. Otto. Jr., of East
Paterson. N. J„ m their automobile
and fatally injuring Lambert
ShacknLs. 27. of Brooklyn
Strike Called By
Stove Plant Men
DETROIT. April 9 </p. — Em
ployees of the Detroit-Michigan
Stove company, said by union of
ficials to number 800. went on
strike this morning, seeking a 20
per cent wage increase and a 38
hour. five-day week
The strikers immediately formed
picket lines, parading in orderly
manner, but making no effort to
stop workmen who went through
the gates.
Robbery Foiled
MERIDIAN. April 9. — Pearl
Benson, Bosque county sheriff, and
two deputies surprised three men
who were believed to have planned
to rob the postoffice at Morgan
early Monday, shooting one in the
stomach and forcing the other* to
flee. The wounded man was taken
to a Waco hospital.
Acting on a tip. the officers hid
themselves in a store building and
saw the men with flashlights and
revolvers walking the streets, then
gather in front of the postoffice
Humble Oil Plans
To Erect Annex
HOUSTON April 9.—./pi— The
Humble Oil and Refining company
announced Monday that it had let
contract to the American Construc
tion company of Houston, for erec
uor of a 14 oi 15 story tower an
nex to its general office building
tn Main street and Polk avenue
here The cost was not divulged.
The annex will occupy half a
block. Construction work is to start
immediately.
OIL PLANT BURNS
PORT HURON Mich., April 9. )*•>
—An explosion shortly after noon
Monday routed the plant vf the Im
perial Oil Co., at Sarnia. Ont., wxtm
the river from here. The explosion
was followed by heavy clouds of
smoke visible from here, but it could
not be learned immediately wheth
er ther* h*d been any loss o»i Ule.