Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1939 Page: 1 of 10
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BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1930
Russia Ends Relations With Hungary
Directs Defense I
t Franco Watches Advancing Rebels l
I Sees No Shadow l
ROME. Feb. 3—<UP>—The "de-
fense frontiers” of the German-
ItaUnn axis must extend “to Uie
Panama Canal” as a result of the
policies of President Roosevelt, the
authoritative Fascist editor, Virginus
Garda, declared today. '
Writing In the Oiornale dltalte
which often speaks for Premier Be-
nito Mussolini, the editor said that
the extension of the Haxt-PaseL'J
WASHINGTON. Feb 3— (UP)-
The Hou « todsv gave final approv-
al to the t72S.000.000 relief appro-
priation- bill and sent it to \ the
White House for presidential sig-
nature.
The House agreed to eilmlnatioo
of Its amendment which would have
proMMted wage differentials of
mere than 2S per cent between
North and South WPA workers
The clause was ellminted by the
Sente.
Earlier, the House had adopted
the conference report on the con-
troversial measure, designed to
eliminate political activity from re-
lief administration, by a voice vole.
The House agreed to elimination
of the wage differential amendment
by a vote of 393 to 140. after an
hour!* debate during which 8outh- i
era congress mew urged that the
amendment be retained.
The appropriation, to finance re-
lief until the fiscal year ends next
June 30 is tlM.OOOJOO Isas than
was' recommended by President
Roosevelt The reoomseriditlori
first was cub by the House and at-
tained by a <7-00 Senate vole In
the administration's first major #0-,
TTN. Feb. 1—<UP>—Rep. J.
'free of Houston said in the
Hot** of Representative* to-
hat Oov. W. Lee 0*Danlei’s
tent in reprieving the death
ice against Wlnzell WjllMms.
ir-oM negro, was “the most
us. the foulest and the most
nan emanate from a man in
date during the last two dec-
Daniel, who says he does not
re in capital punishment for
I reasons, late yesterdav grant-
Uttams a 39-day stay of execu-
te doing so. he said he be-
i no punishment could be so
t as “to have certain death
you in the face for 30 days and
ifthat Mr
WESTERN UNION
SUSPECT VIEWED
to aiv that this statement Is th?
most heinous, the fnwtaat, the most
tnhu nan to emanate from a man In
.this state during the leal two dec-
ades
W ilia ms. eonrattd or Maying E.
B. 1 twood. 63. wnite dairyman, at
Dali was granted a 30-day re-
priei e which otoantel said was the
most severe punishment he could
imsi Ine. The 30-day stay of exe-
cute n also removes O'Daniel from
any ftmher power In the case. It
was his first capital case to cod-
side .
T ie board of pardons and paroles
una kimoualv refused to recommend
cion ency. The execution first was
itt or Pd) *.
“I resent R." . **’
O Daniel's sutement follows:
“1 rtnrrli Williams has been con-
vict. left heinous crime for which
I dd not believe any punishment
AUSTIN, Feb. 3-<UP>-By ac-
cepting House amendment to the
bill abolishing the office of . State
Tax Commissioner, the Trxa* Sen-
ate today sent the measure prompt-'
ly to Oov. W Lee O'Daniel who
tm been revealed as tta sponsor
It was expected formalities of
signing by the Lieutenant Oovernor
and Speaker would be carried out
before the House and Senate ad-
journ today, and that Oovernor
O'Daniel would sign K before night
When his name is attached. It will
end Immediately sn office that was
created In ItOS. An unexpended
UP ooo. previously appropriated for
payment cf the Tag, Commissioner?
office force, will revert to the state
general revenue fund.
8en. Morris Roberts of Pettus
told the Senate that the Comptrol-
ler's office said it could carry on the
duties transferred to It “without a
thin dime” until the next general
state appropriation Is effective. One
House amendment dealt with this l
balance. Another makes the Attor-
4,000 Convicts Go
3-Legged Chick
Is Hatched Here
| day. if you pre-
ler. And any Biown county ground-
Kg fochsh enough to poke his besd
cut l-ia mnrrtriL vs* greeted wt n
ram and a very s.'im chance of see-
ing bis shad or.
Accord::-!.; to tradition spring W
j practically here if the groundhog
i loo it* out and cannot find h-i
, shadew. If he can see his shadow
he la supposed to go back in
burrow and sleep for six mo.c
weeks, secure In the knowledge tha:
we will have sue moie weeks of
lila) and cpeoly Offers his hand u*
the opposition to Bolshevism and
international anti-Paacum. That
is. to thoee parties who organlsa
mat
»m> •
j “Mr. Roosevelt openly takes an
jgpppBvf attitude gainst Italy and
“By piscine IBs offensive frontier
of the United States at the Rhine.
Mr. Rooaerelt forces Oermany and
Italy to extend their defensive
boundary up to the Panama Ca-
A baby chick with three leg*
was hatched this week in the
hatcheries of the Logan PmJ
and Hatchery Co. The leg which
has five Instead of four toes Is
attached to the chick's backbone
It Is normal In every other way,
Logan said.
It wts Logan's first experience
out pf 309.000 eggs and fourteen
years In the hatchery business,
he said. Such an event may oc-
cur to one chick out of 100.300
eggs, he said.
Logan plans to take a picture
of the chick to send to Robert
Ripley as a possible item for his
Believe It or Not column.
represents “one of tt» most amas- prisoners were turned owl of their
ing retreats I have ever seen.” barracks this morning to go to
— ' .'^1.....- work,” Captain Seay said. “Nobody
TREASURY GIVES — ** •* “*
DEFICIT FIGURES JWSVWWfc
__ he turned toward San Antonio or
WASHINGTON, W) 3—(UP)— Houston." _ , ' '
The Treasury revealed today that R Lacy made an escape from the
ended the first seven months of the penitentiary walls in Huntsville last
current fiscal year with a deficit of , IaH He donned a guard's civilian
ff m.11l.IM \ clothing, mingled with a group of
th* rfwiiv Trwin statement for' visitors and calmly walked out to
Jan. 31 showed that .spending since j freedom He was captured a few
July l .*rx t:cd t9.333J00.404. com- days later.
pared with *4 26X4*4 423 In the Lacy la under a life sentence tor
rame period but year. Spending ter murdering Leon Heilman, a New
the first seven montfw closely ap-1 York man who went to Dallas to
proechos total Income anticipated . start a business. Lacy killed Helf-
for th* entire fleeal year. man while bargaining over the sale
Receipts aggregated 63.23S.4JC.- of an auto. After robbing the man.
•09. compared with MJ10J22.7M tn he dumped the body into a sewage
the corresponding ported of the pit.
list fiscal year. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■■■ * .
TO. awt coDUDurt lu rto. physician Charged
to new record heights, reacning ■ .T .•
*38 531.276.360 on Jan 31 In Narcotics Case
Examiners Okay* .,
Braniff Permit tigatioto today Into a narcotics sell-
. — | Ing chaise filed against a prison
WASHINGTON. Feb 3-(UP)— < physician. D». Oeorge R. Taylor Of
Examiner B. Edward Leasure of the Angtoton.
Civil Aeronautics Authority today Dr. Taylor, employed by the prls-
recommended that Braniff Airways, nn svstem for nine yean, pleaded
Inc. be granted permission to con- Innocent to the charge at his ar-
tlnue to operate all its established raignment before U. 8. Oommls-
lines. | skmer W. P. Carothers and was
In his report to the Civil Aero- released on 91J00 bend,
nsutics Authority. Leasure reoom- The doctor was arrested yesterday
ltlas today that he had There arc those, however, who lo
•d in seven robberies in not trust tlx groundhog s pretli*.-
urlng the latter part of t-c ns and -eceU :h»t the wor-t
and the Bret of January, weather of thfe year in this section
R suspected of partieipei- is usually February' or March.
Jd'^X?r^nwoodD* **** i official begin.-.ing of spring.
PARIS, nb. 3—<UP>—A major-
ity of French commentators today
hailed President Roosevelt's attitude
towards Europe as a tangible more
towards ahandentnrnt pf isolation
end an entry into European affairs.
The Petit Journal and the Pop-
u la ire were virtually atone tn warn-
ing that the President s reported
stand should be trusted with re-
serve.
A«>how hV seven weeks until the ^ j t*. too severe The death sen-
- - 3- tew r will be lnteeted March * un-
TRADlfiON SAYS SSSiSSSSS
EARLY SPRING IN |3lbL5Su5y*M,S
TEXAS THIS YEAR S SaWfe'SE
_ . , cas . as per mv constitutional right
By UNITED PREHS tn rder that Wtnvell William' nuv
When the groundhog looked ovrt eufl er this deadful punishment
the weather situation tn Texas to Ahii ty days before he to relieved bv
On Hunger Strike
8AN QUENTIN PRISON. Cal.
Peb. 3—(UP)—Coffee—with cream
and sugar for a change—was set
but today as a mem hall lure to
break a hunger strike of 44)00 of
Sen Quentinf 6.300 prisoners.
The shouting convict* bad missed
meals. In protest against too fre-
quent servings of corned beef hash.
Prison officials tried to take no
chances.. The strikers, locked up
hungry last night, were given their
choice of appearing at the long lines
of tables, or remaining in their
cells. Warden Court Smith hoped
an agreement could be reached by
effertng diversified menus, and up-
held disciplinary action
The regular morning meal of
ccmipeal mush, brown beans and
white bread was to be served, be
Mid. Coffee, with cream and sugar
as a special Inducement, was add-
ed to the meal.
Hoover I* Against,
New Foreign Policy
CHICAGO, PbbTi-i UP)—Former
President Herbert Hoover gave hie
snupport today to the congressional
group opposing President Roosevelts
new foreign policies and warned
that such policies might provoke
international 111 will and possibly
war. i
“Any form of direct or indirect
wet. shivered des .h tn the electric chair.
“ lino I am frank to admit th*t
I believe in the Bible literally and
do Jwl Intend to be a party direct-
ly i r Indirectly to ktiltng a person,
butj the matter according to lsw is
oub of my hands and beyond my
poi tr at the expiration of this thirty
vccstcd passage of the bill last
Monday, today voted against con-
curring tn the amendment*. So did
Sen. Penrose Metcalfe of 8an An-»
gelo.
A proposed 110.000 appropriation
to carry on the state's anti-trust j
penalty suit against cement com-
panies was kept alive when the 1
House by vote of *3 to A0 ordered
it printed on minority report.
The House parsed finally, by Hi
to 3 vote. Rep. Harold Hankamer's
bill to halt sale and leasing of pub- |
Uc school land until M davs after
the Legislature adjourns The MU
was submitted es an emergency by
Oov. W. Lee OUanlel to allow pas- \
sage of stronger laws governling
suc i tosses and sales.
The House adjourned until Friday
morning, after an attempt to leave
off sessions until Monday was over- ;
ruled..
The Senate adjourned until Mon-
day after passing and sending to*
the House the MU revamping the
state auditing department.
empted to flee Eastham He said the clouds meant that
August 16, 1M9. to eo- there U be an early spring, and aft-
fuUy. was arrested on rT that brie; announcement he went
e several days ago. • j back in his hole to get warm.
- .____ The U. 8. Weather Bureau, giv-,
on January 11 roooea doudy all over Texas and was D
Union office In Br0**1*! mining in many places. O
at the pc4nt or a ie- It w%s also gating colder and at
■day were in Dallas o m p*.*0 the rain turned to snow,
ng. 30-year-old T(- weather forecasters said it .
■on farm convict wn i, aou,d ^ frft7liv ^ northern ‘
ed Tueaday bjr two Dai- ■eclloas Df both East and West Tex- J
trtlmen following a hi- w bv tomorrow. J J"
... rv Amarillo and Lubbock, with tern-
ring Sheriff Haumars Bf.ratlires ^ 2g. were the coldest dt-
re Mis* ElMe Johnson. , ^ the stete at 7 a. m , but tern- j J®
iter operator, and Hai-. p, ratlirM jn most sections were
In the event of another great war,
he sakL deoteeracy “must temporar-
ily surrender to dictatorship" which
could not easily be broken down
once the war was over.
He spoke toot nig:t before 3.000
persons at a masting sponsored by
tbs Council on Foreign Relations.
Palestine had *•» inch /of rain. 1 described the strike as a ca-
Dallas h*d .07 Inch and Houston “* .... .... .
04. and traces of rain were report- 1 T Mtoratore and
<d at Abilene. Amsrilla. Port Arthur. Intenanee workers were on strike.
Galtevton and Austin. \ bui a vast army of workers in the
HI........^.^>fu; needle and textile industtrev.
tcirnplis of King had been viewed eo tesntrated tn tesrpr and loft
by wtUfesses to the robbery of tbs bu Ikitngs in an area 36 blocks long
Wtotsm Union office, sa i six Mocks wide, refused to past
King was captured by Delias of- pi get lines, to climb m many as M
fleers as he crossed a goU course fkers to their offices or to work
after staging a holdup. The offleere in unheated quarters and the dto-
were questioning him about a rob- tret was virtually paralysed
bery staged a short time earlier, Hie strikers demanded a raduc-
jbhen the radio on their car began tk » of th* work week to 40 hours
to broadcast news of th* later hi- ,m gg and an increase In wages
jacking and a description of th# 0fTfrom l» to 30 per cent.
Downey to Ask $100
Per Month Pensions
WASHINGTON. :Fbb. 3-(UP>-
•en. Sheridan Downey. D. Cattle
advocate <4 OriiHornlas -ham-and*
egg" petuion plan, said today that
be would ask Connie* to provide
$100 per month “sons! dividend*”
for all retired MUsena me, 66.
Rumors Revived Of
Woodul as Chairman
AUSTIN. Trx .' Fbb. B-lCF)-
Pressnee of fOnapr LtouL Oov. Wal-
ter Woodul In Anstin today mteed
rumen that he will bS Oor. W. Us
O Daniel's ssoood choice for hlgh-
Ecuador Alarmed by
5 Tremors, Volcano
QUITO, Ecuador”Feb. »-(UP)-
Earth tremors and n volcanic crup-
3-rUP)-
out to gat
WASHINGTON, Fbb. O-(UP)-
The condition of Sill. William E
Borah. 1L. Idaho, n-yaar-old dean
of 4h» Senate, was reported “about
WASHINGTON, fbb. l-(UP)
Ice Pneldenoe John N. Oarner ai
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Jones, Ernest. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 1939, newspaper, February 2, 1939; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1040475/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Brownwood Public Library.