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Dollars 'Priming'
Plan Is Outlined
New Wage-Hour Bill Is
Presented by House
Labor Committee Today
WASHINGTON —(UP)—Pre-
sident Roosevelt proposed to
congress today in a special mes-
sage a $4,512,000,000 program of
lending-spending and credit ex-
pansion to launch the new deal
on its greatest expenditures in
a pump-priming drive against
the depression.
Another important piece of
legislation also appeared. The
house labor committee agreed
tentatively to report a new
wage-hour bill, providing six
levels of pay and working hours
by gradual adjustments of stan-
dards. Meanwhile, congression-
al conferees on the new tax bill
headed into embittered commit-
tee fight.
The new spending program
proposed by the president
would boost the federal 1939
budget expenditures to a mini-
mum of $8,881,000,000 with
spending probably topping $9,-
000,000,000 for the first time in
U. S. peacetime history. Little
legislation would be required for
the program.
To Use Gold "Nest Egg"
The president's associates said
the net increase in the nation-
al debt would not exceed SI
000,000,000. The program would
involve use of a $1,400,000,000
gold "nest egg."
Mr Roosevelt, working until
2:15 a. m. today to reshape his
plans after conference with con-
gressional leaders, will go on
the air at 9:30 central time to-
night to rally popular support
for the new deal against an eco-
nomy opposition which, some
believe, includes Vice Presi-
dent Garner.
The new plan is designed to
increase national income in two
years from the present $56,000,-
000,000 to $80,000,000,000 a year.
The plan fell into three gener-
al categories, (1) maintenance
of relief (2) expansion of cred-
it; (3) revival of public works
apd additional funds for certain
new deal recovery agencies.
Credit Kxpansion Flan
The lending-spending credit-
expansion plan includes:
1. $2,002,000,000 of treasury ex-
penditures to make work;
2. $°50,000,000 of treasury
loans to make work;
3. $1,500,000,000 of Reconstruc-
tion Finance corporation loans
to aid business and local govern-
ments.
4. Dcsterilization of $1,1S2,000,-
000 gold, use of $210,000,000 free
gold already in the treasury,
working balance and federal re-
serve reduction of reserve re-
quirements by about $750,000,-
000.
The house drove the $800,000,-
000 agricultural department sup-
ply bill toward final action.
Leaders expected that before
passage an amendment would
increase federal highway aid to
above the $107,500,000 provided
for in the 1938 fiscal year.
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Pupils Protest
Principal's Acts
CORPUS CHRIST I — (UP) —
Most of the student body at
the new Flour Bluff high school
walked out today in protest
against alleged political activi-
ties of Principal J. W. Hill.
The nature of the objection
was not made public, but stu-
dents called on the county su-
perintendent and urged an in-
vestigation to substantiate
charges. The students declared
they would not return to class-
es until a new principal was
named.
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Noted Doctor To
Speak At Tyler
TYLER — (UP) — Dr. Mor-
ris Fishbein, editor of the Am-
erican Medical Association Jour-
nal, will speak in Tyler next
Monday night, it was announced
today.
The witty Chicago editor will
speak on "Foods, Fads and
Follies" in behalf of the build-
ing fund for a local church.
WEATHER
SWEETWATER — Very
much unsettled, high winds,
.warmer, possibility of moisture.
Maximum temperature yes-
terday 70 degrees. Low this
morning 01 degrees. Tempera-
ture at 2 p. m. today 82 de-
grees.
WEST TEXAS — Partly
cloudy, cooler in north and
west, except in extreme west.
EAST TEXAS—Cloudy, lo-
cal showers In west and north
portions tonight and Friday.
Orphans of the Austria Storm
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Youthful refugees from their native land are Rudi and Rva
Itollfiiss; children of Engelbrrt Dollfiiss, assassinated Chancel-
lor of Austria, shown above in their first photograph since
they fled before the Nazi invaders. They are shown with
their pet Pekingese at Castle Middes, Switzerland, where
with (heir widowed mother, they are guests of Herr Musys,
a Swiss Slate Councillor
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Sweetwater Reporter
VOL. XXXX
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1938
NUMBER 323
U♦ S. Warns She'll Protect Americas
Student Air Corps
Officer Is Killed
RANDOLPH FIELD — (UP)
Lieutenant Robert Hubbard, 20,
student air corps officer, was
killed today when his plane
crashed during training maneu-
vers four miles west of here.'
Hubbard's home was in New
York City, and he was a grad-
uate of the LI. S. military aca-
demy of West Point.
Only witnesses to the crash
were Hubbard's commanders
who rescued his body from the
plane just before it burst into
flames.
$1,000 School
Bond Paid Off
'Mrs. Virginia E. Stanfield,
county superintendent, is re-
tiring a $1,000 bond for the
Wastella school upon recom-
mendation of the Nolan county
commissioners' court.
Road district No. 1, held the
school bonds.
Money for paying the bond
was available in the interest
and sinking fund for the dist-
rict.
The issue was a part of the
$5,000 bonded indebtedness vot-
er) in 1924. Of the amount three
serials, of $1,000 each, have
been retired.
Although the Wastella and
Pyron school districts merged
last year , Pyron has not vot-
ed the assumption of the
Wastella bonds.
Their indebtedness is $2,000
after the retirement of the bond
this week.
Massachusetts
Man Reports Clue
In Frome Case
Tells of Seeing Car
Stalled and 'Chunky'
Man Standing Nearby
EL PASO — (UP) — A re-
port from a Newburyport,
Mass., woman and her son
that they saw the automobile
of Mrs. Weston Frome and her
daughter stalled on a West
Texas highway was described
by Sheriff Chris Fox today as
of "major importance."
Fox said investigators had
been handicapped because they
had been unable to find anyone
who saw a tire on the Frome
car being changed.
The Massachusetts man said
that a dark sedan was parked
behind the Frome car and that
a "short, chunky man" was
standing nearby.
Beloved Woman
Pioneer Dies
Here Wednesday
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Funeral Services For
Mrs. E. J. Darley, Active
Club Woman, Held Today
Death claimed one of Sweet-
water's outstanding women citi-
zens and one who had made her
home here for almost 40 years
when Mrs. Elizabeth Crites Dar-
ley succumbed to a long illness
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock at her residence, 305
Hailey.
Funeral services are to be
held at 4 o'clock this afternoon
at the First Presbyterian church
with Dr. Gary L. Smith, pastor,
officiating. Burial will be in the
city cemetery.
Mrs. Darley is survived by
her husband, Ed J. Darley, a
daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Holmes
Robertson, one grandson, Gra-
ham Robertson, and two sisters
and three brothers, Mrs. Rich-
ard Lomax of Austin, Mrs. K. II.
Faulkner of Fort Worth, Lige
Crites, Granbury: C. A. Crites
of Dallas, and Edward Crites of
Spokane, Washington. All close
relatives are here for funeral
services, excepting the brother
of Spokane.
Other relatives who arrived
Wednesday night were Mrs. C.
A. Crites. a niece, Miss Martha
See PIONEERS Page 2
Robert Faver Wins
Speaking Contest
His Slayer Sought
Robert Faver, Newman high
school Junior, won first in the
"My Home Town" speaking
contest at the Sweetwater club
luncheon today. He will repre-
sent the city in the contest of
the West Texas Chamber of
Commerce annual convention at
Wichita Falls, April 25-27 as the
guest of the Board of City De-
velopment. Faver was the only
boy in the group of girls who
won the high school elimina-
tions.
Second place went to Miss
Marjorie Stevenson, and third
award was gained by Miss Hen-
ri Elizabeth Brown. Other en-
trants who ranked close in the
scoring were Miss Marcelle
Moore and Miss Dorothy Jean
Davis. Medals were presented
first, second and third place
winners by the Sweetwater
club.
Koseoe ndges
Judges were Principal M. J.
Weaver of the Roscoe high
school, F. D. Willis and Mrs.
Vernon Blocker of Roscoe.
Mrs. Blocker won the con-
test in 1929, when she was Miss
Klizabeth Jobe. Other children
of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jobe
who have won the honor are
Louis Jobe in 1927, and Miss
Margaret Jobe in 1934. Mrs. T.
%T. Thomas, a contestant in
3-Hour Devotional
Program Arranged
Rain And Hail
Storm Hits City
A heavy rainstorm, accompa-
nied by considerable hail, hit
Sweetwater about 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Hail, about the
size of pee-wee marbles, pep-
pered down for a few moments
when the storm struck.
FTC Rules Against Mendelssohn's
Wedding March In Pipe Organ Case
WASHINGTON — (UP)
—The Federal Trade Com-
mission today ruled against
Mendelssohns vv e d ding
march.
An electric organ had
been brought into the FTC
hearing room and a musi-
cian seated, his hands poised
above the keyboard to begin
the unforgettable piece of
pre-marital music.
Chairman Garland S. Fer-
guson, Jr., held that the
commission — composed en-
tirely of married men —
didn't care to hear the
march again, at least not
just then.
Attorneys in the case of
the Federal Trade Commis-
sion against the Hammond
Clock company, which is
charged with falsely adver-
tising ltft product as "Just
as good as a pipe organ,"
argued long and loudly.
Ferguson polled the five-
man commission and an-
nounced it was the consen-
sus that this is a judicial
body and not a group of mu-
sical critics."
"Frankly," he said, "I
wouldn't know whether it
was good or not. 1 don't
know one musical note from
another."
Commission Attorney Wil-
liam T. Chant land announc-
ed he had made arrange-
ments with a church to pit
the Hammond electrical or-
gan against a pipe organ.
Ferguson vetoed that, too.
The commission, he an-
nounced, wasn't interested.
It preferred to read a 30,000-
word volume of testimony
from musical experts.
The three-hour devotional
program, to be held at the First
Methodist church "Good Fri-
day," beginning at high noon
and ending at 3 o'clock, was
completed today and released by
Dr. Thomas Lenox, pastor of
the First Christian church and
chairman of the program com-
mittee.
Dr. Lenox asked that choir
singers of the various church-
es assist in the services, re-
questing them to come to the
choir loft as they arrive at the
church, thereby keeping a full j
choir during the entire three-
hour service.
Friday's service is the begin-
ning of the annual observance
of Sweetwater of Easter Sun-
day. The program is sponsored
by the Ministerial Alliance,
which organization is also re-
questing that as many Sweet-
water business houses, as prac-
tical, be closed Easter Sunday
from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m., to al-
low employes to attend church
services Sunday.
The "Good Friday" program
is as follows: ,
First Period, 12 to 12:30
Organ prelude: Largo, Mrs.
John Hubbard; hymn, "When 1
Survey the Wondrous Cross,"
audience; scripture. Luke 23:34-
38, J. H. Williams; prayer, the
Rev. M. L. Moody; hymn, "The
Old Rugged Cross," audience;
"Forgiveness — Father forgive
them . ..." the Rev. George T.
Palmer; silence, audience softly
singing. "Into My Heart."
Second Period, 12:30 to 1
Organ interlude, Mrs. Hub-
bard: hymn, "Jesus Keep Me
Near the Cross," audience; scrip-
ture, Luke 23:30-43, Carl Ander-
son; Solo, "One Day." Mrs. Frank
Posey; "Promise—Today Shalt
thou be with me in paradise,"
Dr. Gary L. Smith; audience soft-
ly singing, "Abide With Me."
Third Period, t to 1:30
Organ interlude, Mrs. W. E.
Morton, hymn, "Love Lifted
Me," audience; scripture, John
19:25-27, prayer. Thomas Whit-
tonburg; solo, "A Little Bit of
Love," Mrs. H. O. Dean; "Af-
fections—Woman behold thy
son ..." the Rev. L. B. Small-
wood; hymn, "O Love That Will
Not Let Me Go," audience.
Fourth Period, 1:30 to 2
Organ interlude, Mrs. Mor-
ton; hymn, "I Need Three," aud-
ience; scripture, Matt. 27:45-50,
See DEVOTIONAL Page 3
Swings Right
For the first time in two
years France has a govern-
ment which excludes the sup-
port of communists and has
limited backing from social-
ists since Kdotiard Daladier,
premier succeeded Socialist
Leon It I ii in.
Frank Headrick
Dies In Sleep
Frank E. Headrick, 49. a
Sweetwater resident for 32
years, died as he slept at 4:15
a. m.. today at his home north
of the city.
He had been in ailing health
several months, but was not
committed to bed. his condition
never severe.
Funeral services are to be
held at 4 p. m., Friday at the
First Methodist church with
the pastor, the Rev George T
Palmer, officiating.
Burial is to be made in the
city cemetery under the direc-
tion of Yates Funeral home.
Surviving are his widow, two
daughters, Mrs. L. O. Justiss
and Mrs. Johnnie Hall. Sweet-
water; one granddaughter, Ju-
lia Jane Justiss, aiso of Sweet-
water; five brothers, E. R. Head-
rick, Gordon Headric|c. Jy, 1.
Headrick, all of Sweetwater, and
Earl Headrick of Port Arthur;
four sisters, Mrs. Pearl Sublett,
Brownwood; Mrs. Cora Heffner,
and Mrs. Jewel Johnson. Sweet-
water; and Mrs. Lilly Lowry,
Slaton.
1929 when she was Miss Vau-
dalene Rogers, also was a guest
of the club.
The Newman entries were
coached by Miss Sara Wheat.
They were introduced by Prin-
cipal J. H. Williams.
(iuests Of Club
Other guests included I. R.
Huchingson, superintendent of
Roscoe schools: Vernon Block-
er of Roscoe; Bill Payne of
Dallas; Bob McKissick: H. G.
Glover of Abilene; and Jack
Jackson of Big Spring.
Marshall Pior was announc-
ed as a re-instated member of
the club.
Following the luncheon Pre-
sident C. R. Simmons sum-
moned the board members in-
to executive session.
Adams to Head
School Board
ROSCOE—Trustees of the
Roscoe independent school dis-
trict met Tuesday night, can-
vassed results of the recent trus-
tees election, and reorganized
for the coming year.
R. L. Adams was elected pres-
ident of the board to succeed
the Rev. G. W. Parks, and C. D.
Maloney was named vice-presi-
dent. E. J. Worthy who has ser-
ved as secretary for 18 years,
was renamed to that post.
George W. Thompson, only
member to be elected to the
board on April 2, was present
and installed as a trustee. The
canvass of the April 2 election
showed several changes in the
vote announced by the election
officials but failed to change the
respective standing of the can-
didates.
The board again named Mr.
Parks as tax-assessor for the
district.
No action was taken on the
election of the teachers, the
matter being deferred until lat-
er.
The board also approved an
application of the Boy Scout
Troop 37 to use the old high
school gymnasium as a meet-
ing place this summer.
The present membership of
the board, in addition to Adams,
Maloney, Worthy and Thomp-
son, are J. H. Scruggs, A. M.
Coleman, and Grady Norris.
Mrs. Hahn Has Date
With Death May 4
COLUMBUS, O. — (UP) —
Blonde Anna Marie Hahn. 31-
year-old convicted poison slay-
er, cried softly to herself in a
special cell in the Ohio peniten-
tiary today after learning that
the State Supreme Court had
refused to consider an appeal
from her death conviction.
The Supreme Court set May
4 as the date on which Mrs.
Hahn, mother of a 13-year old
boy. must die in Ohio's electric
chairs.
With only meager clues to
guide tlicm, police spread a
three-state dragnet over Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Yir-
I ginia to catch the murderer
! of Arthur ('. Rowland, 2!), so-
cially prominent Weir Cove,
! W. Va., choir singer and dra-
| matics teacher whose body
j was found in a ditch near
Paris, Pa.
I Green Tax Case
j
Gets Underway
j MIAMI— (UP) — New York
j and Massachusetts offered tes-
timony contradicting Florida's
claim to levy inheritance taxes
on the estate of tlie late Col.
E. H. R. Green, multi-million-
I aire financier.
| Massachusetts called Charles
j M. Keyes, local insurance exe-
cutive, as a witness before spe-
cial Master John S. Flannerv,
| appointed by the U. S. Supreme
, Court to gather evidence to de-
| termine whether Green's legal
| residence was in New York,
I Texas. Massachusetts or Flori-
i da. Keyes quoted Green:
"Florida is just a place where
I I come to reside in the winter,
j Massachusetts is my home.
' I have a beautiful place up
there."
Dr. Charles Roche, Miami
Beach physician, was a New
York witness. He believed Green
probably came to Florida only
for his health. Roche previous-
ly had testified Green regarded
Terrell, Tex., as his home.
It was estimated state inheri-
tance taxes on Green's estate
would aggregate $5,000,000 for
one of the four states.
Uncle Sam and
Britain Renew
Moral Leadership
President Leads Western
Hemisphere In Observing
Pan-American Day
By l VITEI) PRESS
I The United States and Great
j Britain today renewed their
moral leadership for peace in
! Europe and the Americas.
President Roosevelt led the
I western hemisphere's otaser-
I vance of Pan American Day with
| an address at Washington, warn-
1 ing that the United States will
i turn back any aggressor from
I abroad.
The peace of the Americas, he
said, "shall not be endangered
by controversies within our fam-
! ily, and we will not permit it
to be endangered from aggres-
sion coming from outside. The
I American republics, neverthe-
! less, face a grave task. If our
| good fortune is to continue our
j will must be strong."
Probably more important to
: world peace was the virtual
I completion of Britain's agree-
: ment with Fascist Italy intend-
| ed to end differences between
] the two nations and weaken the
Nazi-Fascist combination.
Proposal To Germany
At Berlin United States Am-
bassador Hugh R. Wilson, as-
serting that -with wise lertder-
ship" the United States will be
r able to keep out of any Euro-
pean war. publicly invited Ger-
i many to collaborate in recipro-
• cal trade concessions as a
i means of promoting peace.
The ambassador, speaking at a
dinner of the American Cham-
| her of Commerce in Berlin at
! the hotel Kaiserhof across the
; street from Fuehrer Adolf Hit-
ler's home and chancellory, by
inference chided Germany f or
her policy of economic self-
sufficiency.
He called attention to the Un-
ited States' good-neighbor poli-
! cv toward Latin America and
; the reciprocal trade program
as aspects of Washington's "con-
structive" foreign policy.
Reciprocal trade concessions,
he said, will enlarge commerce
jand thereby appease economic
; lension'and promote peace.
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Rebuilding Snyder
School Starts Soon
SXYDER — Preliminary
plans for the Snyder high school
building, destroyed by a re-
cent fire, are being drawn by
Haynes and Strange, Lubbock
architects.
Haynes said WPA work fori I
cleaning up the property before
construction seemed assured.
Massachusetts Law Holds That 10
Kisses Equals Proposal to Wed
ST. LOUIS—(UP) — Ly-
man E. Cook, a member of
the St. Louis bar, showed
today what lengths the
ponderous business of law-
making has reached.
In a volume of legal od-
dities, "Comics in the Law"
Cook pointed out the follow-
ing results of too much
thinking in legislative halls:
An old Kansas law pro-
vides that "when two trains
come to a crossing both
shall come to a full stop
and neither shall start until
the other has gone."
There is a Massachusetts
law stipulating that 10 kis-
ses is the equivalent of a
proposal of marriage.
And, continued Cook, Ut-
ah women must wear heels
not more than one inch and
a half high; foreigners may
not legally own dogs in
West Virginia; calling a fe-
male a "flapper" is unlaw-
ful in Tennessee, and don't
slap anyone on the back in
South Carolina because it's
"agin the law."
Missourians once safe-
guarded themselves against
hazards by patronizing an
insurance company with pol-
icies providing "no recovery
shall be had unless the in-
sured is gored by a cow and
kicked by a mule."
It is against the law to
speak English in Chicago.
An O k I a h o m a n was
brought into court charged
with biting off his ear.
Probably realizing the dif-
ficulty the judge held it
improper to question the
man how he did it on
grounds it would cause pro-
longed argument.
Churchman Gets
Life Sentence
CORDELL, Okla. — (UP) —
District Judge W. P. Keen to-
day sentenced Marion Larner,
Dill City churchman and coun-
cilman. to life imprisonment In
McAlester penitentiary for the
! hammer slaying of his wife.
Larner had refused to at-
tempt, to evade conviction by
pleading insanity, a crowded
' courtroom heard the sentence
! passed.
County Attorney Raymond
3lumlee said the confessed slay-
er kept his iron control during
the period before he entered
the court room. Only once
1 since his arrest had he broken
down. The bushy-browed pro-
duce dealer sobbed as he dictat-
ed a statement that he beat
his wife to death on March 31,
their wedding anniversary. The
slaying ended five years of
stormy married life, he'said.
Two Crew Members
Held In Opium Case
SAN FRANCISCO—(UP)—
Two members of the crew of
the I'. s. navy transport Chau-
mont admitted attempting to
smuggle $50,000 worth of opium
into the United States from
the transport. United States
treasury officials announced to-
day. |||
The treasury quoted Robert
Pinson. baker al)oard the
Chaumont, as saying that he
and Andrew Hovarth. a boat-
swain's mate, had been engaged
in narcotic smuggling since
j 1035.
The Chaumont shipment was
seized by federal agents in a
cafe where Pinson and Hovarth
met after the vessel docked.
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