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THE TRIBUNE
"For God and Country: Recognizing rights of others, we stand for our own!”
PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOLUME in.
HallettsviUe, Texas, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 1934.
NUMBER 76.
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At the conference held in Wa-
shington Saturday it was decid-
ed not to suspend the Bankhead
Act. It i3 too late to undo the
damage already done under the
present plan of so called cotton
reduction.
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“If the small farmers are
taken care of, I have no objec-
tion to discontinuance of the
ill, but if the present in jus-
ices continue, I want the bill
suspended,” said senator Russell
of Georgia.
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It is not the law, senator, but
the plan that’s wrong. The
acting on behalf of the small
farmers should have been done
last winter, when the Bankhead
Act was under consideration.
But it is not too late to act for
next year.
The Tribune stood against
the present plan from the
beginning and has the sa-
tisfaction of noting that ev-
en the big dailies are be-
ginning to take the same
stand on the cotton law the
Tribune has been advocat-
ing. from its conception.
Argentine Training Ship at New York
The Presldente Sarmlento, training ship from Argentina, photographed
ai aba arrived In the Hudaon river at New York. She la carrying the
paval cadets on a long cruise.
Kidnaper and Murderer of Lindbergh Baby
Found in Criminal Escaped from Germany
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21. — Bruno
Richard Hauptmann was arrested
here as the undoubted kidnaper and
murderer of the Lindbergh baby
March 1, 1932. In his home at
Bronx the police found $13,760 of
the original Lindbergh marked mo-
ney, hidden in the garage. Haupt-
mann when captured by the police
dead, was found in Haupmann’s cel-
lar in the Bronx.
In Washington, it was recalled
that B. C. Farrar, hand-writing ex-
pert of the Treasury, told authori-
ties all through the search to see a
methodical German carpenter.
Mexican Highway
- Improvements Will
Aid Texas Industry
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Texas industrialists are Material-
ly interested in the improvement of
Mexican highways and believe that
completion of the road to Mexico
City means much in the way of
developing the industrial growth of
Texas—the natural source of manu-
factured products for much of Mex-
ico.
Relations between Mexico and
Texas were never more cordial. The
Mexican government and people
have advantaged from the influx of
American tourists, most of them
from Texas. The tourists, on the
other hand, have learned a new
appreciation of Mexico and of the
fine courtesy of the Mexican peo-
ple. One result has been that
there is a new appr < nation on the
part of many Americans of Mexico
and a new understanding on the
part of many Mexicans of the Am-
erican people.
Texas should take the lead in
joining Mexico in celebrating the
completion of the Mexico City
highway. It should be a cele-
bration worthily commemorative of
a most important event. Progres-
sive Texans, Inc., suggests to the
new State administration, the re-
, gional chambers of commerce and
other organizations conceamed in
building a friendship with the people
across the Rio Grande that they join
with it in planning now for the
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(was driving the car which was iden deductions:
| tified as one stolen near Lakewood, j That the ladder used to snatch Ba
Constructed Crime
He based his remark from these celebraton only a few more months
away.
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Meetings will be held and a-
gricultural associations organiz
Wl in farm communities princi-
pally for farmers to better in-
form themselves about the
Bankhead law. Much will de-
pend on who will do the inform-
ing. Attend these meetings to
a man. But do not allow any-
one to tell you that the present
plan is anything else than a
mere tax measure. Without
voluntary contracts next year
this glorious plan would accom-
plish no more cotton reduction
than it did this year.
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We repeat the Tribune's
program regarding the fu-
ture of the cotton law: No
pkkn which is a mere cotton
tax lawless regulations, less
government hired men and
absurd injustice. — Let the
government simply tell you
how much cotton you can
plant — penalize the excels
acreage — but then let the
fanner alone with his crop
that he made.
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It was not thru any efforts
on the part of the police that
the Lindbergh kidnaping case
was solved. Without the smart
gasoline station man the police
would be in the dark just as
much as before.
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The trouble seems to be that
we have too fnuch police but
not united — city, county, state
and federal, all separate units
not necessarily working in har-
mony and producing the besc
possible results.
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The textile strike is end-
ed and the cotton should
feel better. The textile
union men hope that the
end means million more
members to their union.
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N. J., the clay before the blond cur-
ly-haired Lindbergh baby, Charles
August, Jr., was stolen from his
crib from the second floor nursery
of the secluded Lindbergh home in
the Sourland . Mountain district near
Hopewell the n*ght of March 1,
1932. It w-as found that Haupt-
mann was a native of Germany and
left his native land with a criminal
record behind him, entering this
country in 1923 aR a stowaway. H-
was planning to return back to Ger-
many soon, when arrested. The
labor department, in Washington,
said a man who gave his name as
Karl Pell Meier, alias Bruno Richard
Hauptmann was deported to Ger-
many in 1923 after entering this
country as a stowaway. It was in-
dicated the man was Hauptmann.
Evidently he succeeded lateir in mak-
ing the illegal entry Into this coun-
try. He married in 1920 and has
one child. His wife was arrested
and questioned, as well as his ne-
by Lindbergh from his second floor
nursery crib was cleverly construct-
ed: That the notes were written by
a German; and
That every evidence pointed to a
methodical person.
Farrar, too, added his belief to o-
thers that the Lindbergh baby was
dropped the night of the kidnaping
— March I; 1982 — was injured to
such an extent that the kidnapers
left the child to die in the thicket
five miles from the lonely Lindbergh
Hopewell home — where the body
was found, badly decomposed, some
70 days after the abduction.
In thair construction of the crime,
authorities have believed, that if thi3
were true, the abductor took the
baby’s sleeping garments; turned
them over to “Jafsie” as identifica-
tion on the first contact; and ar-
ranged through additional notes foi
the transfer of the $60,000.
Thus the circumstances have been
woven around Hauptmann.
A taxi driver has identified the
phew, but later released as having1
absolutely no connection with the, a|jen ug the man w^0 gave him a
cnme- dollar to take a note to Condon’s
Under the NRA, the labor is
making rapid strides forward
due to the unity. The farm-
-1' ers numerically and even fin-
ancially are much stronger but
as to power and influence, in-
finitely much weaker than la-
bor. Unless a law # unites
them, nothing evidently will.
Gasoline Station Manager Suspects
It was the ten dollar gold bill
with which he paid for gasoline,
that lead to Hauptmann’s capture.
Walter Lyle, 36, gasoline filling
station manager, disclosed Thursday
night that his suspicions of a Unit-
ed States gold certificate supplied
one of the mayor clues in the appre-
hension of Bernard Hauptmann, Lind
bergh kidnap suspect.
“Shortly before 10 o’clock last Sa-
turday morning.” Lyle said, a man
in a sedan (Dodge) stopped at his
station on I^exington avenue, be-
tween 127th and 128th streets and
“ordered five gallons of gasoline.”
In payment he offered a $10 gold
certificate.
" ‘You don't see many of these any
more,’ I remarked.
“ ‘I’ve only got a few left,' the
driver replied.
As the automobile drove off, Lyle
jotted down the license number on
the bill. “ ‘There’s something fun-
ny about this,” I told Johnny Lyons,
my assistant,” Lyie explained.
“Lyons suggested: ‘Let’s take it
to a bank — it may be one of the
Lindbergh bill’.”
The two hurried to a nearby bank,
Lyle continued, and there officials
home. The Department of Justice
has said the handwritings were the
same.
The latest step in the identifica-
tion series came from Hopewell to-
night
Again Identified
Theodore Kuchtiak, a watchman
tluring the construction of the Lind-
bergh home in the Sourland moun-
tains, said a picture of Hauptmann
looked “very much like a mysterious
fellow” who tried to see the inside
of the unfinished house, six months
before the kidnaping.
“What made me suspicious of
him,” Kuchtiak said, “was that he
said he had been out picking chest-
nuts and yet he had only throe o»
four of the nuts in the pail he was
carrying.”
The watchman said the "mysteri-
ous fellow” came out of the woods
into the clearing around the house
and expressed himself as “curious
to see the interior of the house.”
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Hundreds Dead In
Japanese Typhoon
TOKIO, Sept. 21. — (AP) — At
least 1346 persons were killed and
4203 injured today by a typhoon
which swept central and western
checked the certificate against a list Japan.
of numbers of Lindbergh ransom I The steadily mounting toll of Ca-
nutes. They found Lyle’s note was | laities indicated that hundreds of
included and immediately notified nu persons were missing. No imme-
thorities. diate estimate could be made of th°
A check of the license plates led property damage, but it was ob
to Hauptmann.
viuu8 that it would amount to mil-
Hauptmann was identified by John lions of dollars.
Perrone, taxi driver, in The Bronx, i In the city of Oaka, probably
as the man who gave him a dollar, j the harde-t hit of nil, police re-
soon after Doctor Condon was an-, ported 1067 persons were dead anil
nounced as a. negotiator, to deliver a! 3057 injured. Th?re nlso the police
note to the Condon home. | said, 181 were unaccounted for
$13,760 of the $50,000 ransom (The storm swept from Angnskui to
money paid for the baby, later found Nagano.
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Two Presidents, Four
Governors’ Will Be
Asked to Centennial
Austin, Sept. 20. — Presidents and
officials of two nations and gov-
ernors of four states would be in-
vited to the Texas Centennial in
1936 by the terms of a resolution
approved by the senate state af-
fairs committee.
Officials of Mexico would have
been invited to attend and bring
with them the New Orleans grays’
flag which Texans lost at the
Alamo. The resolution was ex-
panded to invite President Roose-
velt and his cabinet; the president
and officials of Mexico and gov-
ernors of California, Arizona, New
Mexico and Louisiana.
Exhibition Of the Alamo flag, pre-
served at the National Museum
in Mexico City, during the Cen-
tennial was requested of the Mex-
ican government.
Cardinal Willing
To Delay Action
In Movie Drive
Conference in Washington Decided
Not to Repeal Bankhead Cotton Law
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Farmers Are To Get 10
Per Cent Extra
Allowance
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Valley Farmer Allowed
To Sell Surplus
Tax Free
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. -
(AP) — Representative Milton
West, Democrat, of Texas, said
late Saturday after conferences
with agriculture department of-
ficials he was convinced cotton
farmers in the Rio Grande Val-
ley of Texas would receive “sub-
stantial consideration in connec-
tion with enforcement of the
Bankhead production control
act.
West said the administration
had agreed to allot to Texas
roughly 320,000 bales above its
tax-exempt quota, and that he
was “confident” Valley farmers
could obtain their share of that
concession by applying to the
state allotment board at College
Station.
He estimated the Valley
would produce 50,000 bales in
excess of its tax-free quota, and
said he believed that many ad-
ditional bales would be allowed
it through the state board.
The 320,000 bales addition to
the quota will be made possible
through the fact the adminis-
tration, in making allotments,
reserved 10 per cent in each
state to care for inequalities.
Wp*t said he also sugg-sted
to the administration that far-
mers producing four bales or
less be tax exempt irrespective
of what their tax-free quota
may have been, but that he
had little hope that plea would
•h* granted.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. —’said Nicholas, shaking harnls
(AP) — The Bankhead cotton iaround~_
Al Smith Suffers
Heart Attack.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21. — (AP)
— Former Governor Alfred £. Smith
suffered a slight heart attack today
when he learned of the death of a
close friend, the Rev. H. Farley, of
Washil gton, D. C., who died sud-
denly just before he was to have
celebrated a requiem mass. Smith
recovered quickly and attended the
mass.
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Painting Purchased
For 20 Cents Found
To Be $50,000 Titian
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BUDAPEST, Hungary, Sept 20.
— A nondescript painting in the
shop of a junk dealer appealed to
Dr. George Gombosi, youthful art hi-
storian, and he bought it for 20
cents. Experts who removed the
centuries-old surface of the picture
today pronounced it a genuine Ti-
tian, worth about $50,000.
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Funeral Held at Edna
For Woman Kicked By
Horse
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Edna, Sept. 2ft. — Funeral serv-
ices were held for Mrs. Lee Castel-
law, Jackson County resident, who
died at a Victoria hospital following
injuries received several days ago
when she was kicked and pawsd by
a horse which was being doctored
by her husband.
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First Reward Paid
In Lindbergh Case
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New York, Sept. 21. — The first
reward in the Lindbergh sase was
paid today—to the smiling 'young
man who penciled the magic fig-
ures 4U13-41 on the face of a $10
gold certificate.
The reward was a check for $100.
payable to the order of Walter
Lyle, and signed by his boss, L. V.
Nicholas, president, which operates
the filling station where Lyle ser-
ves as manager.
“Take a couple of days off, too,”
all
Rome, Sept. 21. — George Cardi-
nal Mundelein of Chicago told the
Associated Press today that he was
willing to hold up future action in
the “decent movie campaign” in
order to see what motion picture
producers would do.
“We are willing”, said Cardinal
Mundelin “to extend the decent
producers a chance to see what the
movie producers will make of them-
selves.
“We are going to give the movie
producers a chance to see what
they can do. We do not want to
put the movies out of business.
“But we are not taking any
chances; we' are going to remain
organized. In my diocese we have
650,000 signatures of adults with-
out asking promises from the
youths.
We do not ask the movie pro-
control act went on trial for its I unt>. anotments thus fat are 0„iy
life Saturday and the verdict |so per cent of the f nal allotment
was acquittal.
“The act will not be suspend-
ed,” said Chester C. Davis,
AAA administrator, after a con-
ference, in which Secretary Wal
lace and congressmen from the
cotton states participated. Wal-
lace said virtually the same
thing.
To help small farmers, who
complained against the mea-
sure, their allotments under it
will be increased 10 per cent.
The Bankhead law, passed
largely through the efforts of
Senator Bankhead (Democrat)
of Alabama, who participated
in the discussion Saturday, plac
es a tax of 5i/o cents a lint
pound on all cotton sold from
this year’s crop in excess of
10,460,251 bales.
The measure was the first com put
ducers' to bring out the ‘Pollyanna’ | sory crop control legislation and
type of films. The kind of film in
whicli Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor
and Victor Moore appear is what
we have in mind. We (k> not like
the Mae West type.
“Let there be a real story, pro-
vided it is decent.”
Cardinul Mundelein's interview
followed nn audience with Pope
Pius at which, however, the subject
of motion pictures was not dis-
cussed.
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The TRIBUNE FREE for 4 months
•0 newlyweds married within 1 year.
rho Tribune and Novy Domov have
10 enual in the field they cover for
advertisements.
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Mrs. S. B. Kahn spent Thursday
and Friday visiting in Houston.
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President Roosevelt had to approve
it publicly before it was passed by
congress.
Primarily, because of drouth, the
production of cotton this year is
estimated at only 9,252,000 bales
more than 1,000,000 bales below the
Bankhead quota. Nevertheless,
many farmers east of the Mississippi
river and some elsewhere will have
to pay the levy. Their produc-
tion has exceeded or will exceed the
allotment assigned them under the
measure. This, combined with de-
lay and administrative difficulties,
let to an outcry for outright sus-
pension of the law. The idea was
abandoned, so far as the farm ad-
ministration is concerned, at Satur-
day’s conference.
Domov, ask for combined rates.
The TRIBUNE FREE for 4 months
Wallace pointed out that the co-.to newlyweds married within 1 year.
each county will receive.
“In other words,” he said,’ “we re-
served 10 per cent of the allotnic..t
to handle cases where there may be
injustice and inequities. But I think
this fact has not been generally re-
cognized and that this 10 per cent
will take care of the situation.”
Everybody present said they hop-
ed so, but Senator Russell (Demo-
crat) of Georgia interposed.
"I don’t want to be bound. If the
small farmers are taken care of, I.
have no objection to continuance rf
the bill, but if present injustices
continue, 1 want the bill suspended.”
“That is mys position,” said both
Senator George (Democrat) of Geor-
gia and Representative Brown (Demo
crat) of Georgia. ^
The delegation which visited Secre
tary Wallace was divided on continu-
ance or suspension of the control
measure. Most of the group from
west of the Mississippi, among them
being Chairman Jones of the house
agriculture committee, opposed sus-
pension because, in their views, it
would be an injustice to farmers
who do not raise the allotment
given them.
For exurnplt*, Texas is expected
to fall almost 854,000 bales below
the 3,237,000 bales given the state un
der the Bankhead bill. If there
is arty market for them farmers’
certificates, each representing a bule
which may be marketed tax free,
will be sold for about $20 each.
The fanners in Texas, Oklahoma
and other states affected by the
drouth except to sell a good many
certificates to their more fortunate
brethren east of the Mississippi.
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