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DENTON RECORD-CHRONICLE %
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 9, 1934
DENTON,
EIGHT PAGES
NO. IM
SENATE ORDERS ARREST OF
U. MOPE
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Northeastern U. S.
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Gripped by Blizzard Careful Edward
Wiliam P MacCracken ♦
♦ ate,
Senate Accepts
J. B. Bartee Dies
At Home in Krum
presented his arrest resolu- '
again.
below.
100.000.
ister Tewfik Rushdi Bey.
body besides us.
Yours, a
b
vanti
18rss
mtll the standards are met. This
not mean, however, that teacn-
the requirements are met. ‘
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Bill To Extend
Car License Time
$2,000 Monthly
For Students in
T.C. Under CWA
LOCAL GAS PUNT HIT UNDER
FIRE IN CROSS-EXAMINATION
Veterans to Be
Selected In New
French Cabinet
Intensive Hunt
for Kidnapers
Balkans Sign
Non-Aggression
Pact in Athens
Requirements for
School Teachers
President Asks
Regulation Of
All Exchanges
r
(INTENSE COLD
AND STORMS IN
Y
Accident Board. Chairman of the
Civil Judicial Council. three ap-
pointed by the Leutenant-Gover-
Secretary ♦
air—was ♦
litical parties than any nation on
earth. There is over 30 different
rarties represented in the House ol
Deputies. Now in a fight on the
streel. there is not that many air-
ferenf kinds of badges to wear. Well
it's rood to see France sore at some-
All we read in the papers today
out here is riots in Paris and taxi-
sab riots in New York. We know
what they are fighting over in New
York, they are fghting over a nickie
but nobody, (even France) know.
Heavy Factory Fire
Loss in New Jersey
■
.80 Inch Of
Rainfall Here
Rain totalling 80 of an inch’had
fallen at the State Experiment Sta-
tion here at 7 a. m Friday, and a
misting rain fell much of the morn-
ing. The precipitation Thursday war
.64 and Thursday night .16 inch.
which she appointed only one.
ber. .—
sylvanla it was so cold the nativez
couldn’t harvest the ice crop.
The temperature dipped to 18 be-
low at Boston early this morning,
breaking another record. Two deaths
from the cold were reported.
The cold area reached south as
far as the nation's capital where
it was six below.
Put in Record
Thursday afternoon proceedings
Ah Me, What Next?
CHICAGO — Juanita Shelley
insists that tn a garden of Eden
drapes would be unthinkable.
She therefore proposes to rep-
resent Eve at the Jungle ball
of Chicago artists. in the man-
ner in which Eve is supposed
to have appeared.
More conservative of the art-
ists are arguing that the police
have to be considered, and the
matter remains, to be settled one
way or the ottr.
Bill For Control
Of Stock Dealing
To Be Offered
New All-Time Marks
Set In Many
Cities.
S: Partly doudy,
in north and ce-
tatai. ==
VOL. XXXIII
SAS PRISON FARM
TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark.,
Feb. 9-(- Benny Butler, negro,
was electrocuted at the state prison
farm at dawn today tor the murder
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Letter Denies Authority Of Congress To In-
flict Punishment; Hearing For Other De-
fendant* I* Suspended.
' P ../ • -
Figure* Compiled By Nichol* Vary Widely
From Ga* Company's Valuation A* To
“Non-Physical” Item*.
Harriass M Hanshue, president of
Western Air Express, and Gilbert
Givvin, Washington representative
of the latter corporation, was sus-
pended until MacCracken could be
brought before the Senate.
Vice President Garnet, who war
presiding at the unusual court krial
put-the question immediately when
- will have to be elected to the
same position in the schools until
“This rain will be of much help
to the grain and farming in gen-
oral." said J W. Gray Friday. “The
ground was very dry as there had
net been sufficient moisture to put
a season in the ground since the
long drouth last fall.”
Weathe:
2.2nfrkeen. rn—. - -
Starting Early
PORTLAND. Ore.—Something
new in Oregon political strat-
egy—a gubernatorial candidate
for the 1946 Democratic primar-
ies
“Why 1946? Due to state laws
no person under 34 may hold
this executive position," Thom-
as L. Taylor. 22. of Portland,
explains on election cards. The
cards also list his headquarters
and campaign chairman.
"We keep adding new names to
the list of farmers in the county
who are contracting to co-operate
with the government in the cotton
nereare reduction program and are
hopeful of making a good showing
when the extended period closes
next Thursday," said W. C. On,
< hairman of the cotton committee
<t Deuton County. “In some com-
. muntties of the county the co-op-
cration has been unusually good
and with the large number of days
of the peroid we are hopeful of
making a success of the undertak-
Jng in this seuntr.” .....— - -----
Fhlking about old coins. Mrs.
Charles Mozingo, 430 Pearl Street,
has a half-dime that bears the
date of 1833, being more than 100
years old. Mrs. Mozingo has owned
the coin for 33 years.
♦ hunted for arrest this after ♦
♦ noon, but his counsed refused ♦
♦ to produce him until a writ ♦
♦ of habeas corpus had been ♦
♦ drawn to obtat nhis release. ♦
Heavy Damage Done
By Windstorms In
--------------Europe.-------
Bill Proposes
Tax On Sports
of a negro woman in Craighead
County, ' . ’ . : ' '
WILL
. Yet Kids
Still Love
' Grandma
—— (By Ameociated Prene) ----
PHILADELPHIA - Dear old
grandmother gets the verbal axe
of Dr. Garry Cleveland, psy-
chologist and child training ex-
pert from Cleveland, Ohio. Pic-
turing the silver-haired lady as
the worst michlef maker in
bringing up children, he said
"Young married couples would
do better to go on public relief
than to remain under the thumb
of a grandmother."
southeast portom, hard freeme wS*
temperatur M to tt t Might, Sat-
urday fair, art «• cold. Lvestock
She added that she gets much
pleasure out of reading the Rec-
ord-Chronicle. as it keeps her post-
cd on events in her former home
county. ’___-.........
Two Questioned
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 9 —(47—De-
tectives today questioned two men
believed1 to be bootleggers, who were
arrested last night while speeding
in an automobile with * Minnesota
in the car were weapons and $2,-
000 in $5 and $10 and »20 bills, the
police said.
They also sought to Hnkthem
with the kidnaping of Edward G
Bremer, St. Paul, whose family paid
$200,000 tar his release from his ab-
ductors Wednesday
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—(—A
14,000-word bill proposing stringent
Federal regulation of stock ex-
change operations was ready for
introduction today as Prwiitan*
Roosevelt pollshed a special mes-
saga to Congress upon the same
subject.
Authors of the project legsla-
tion, describing it m a roundup of
various proposals gieaneg trom two
years of study, reported identical
measures would bo itroduced in
both ths Senate and House as soon
as the chief executive's bums go
arrived. Bills for regulation at the
commodity exchangee win folow.
The most stringent of the Pro-
posals now ready for introduction
was an absolute prohibition on pool
operationa, with provision for mak-
ing them a criminal offense sub-
ject to a heavy fine and tmpria-
onment.
An appraisal by an engineer retained by the City of
Denton which put the value of the Municipal Gm Com-
pany system here at approximately >289,000, exclusive
of depreciation, as compared with an approximate valua-
tion of >346,000 placed on it by company engineers, was
raked over the coals by gas company counsel Friday morn-
ing as Railroad Commission examiners began their fourth
day of a hearing on local rates.
duled opening of his trial bn con-
tempt charges. challenging the Sen-
ate's authority.
Three co-defendants, all attached
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♦ WASHINGTON. Feb. 9(P ♦
♦ —At the order of the Sen- ♦
FIREMAN MISSING IN WISCON-
SIN WRECK
RHINELANDER, Wis, Feb. 9.—
UP)—Don Jones, a railroad fireman
was missing, and at least 12 persons,
seven of them pe moaners, were in-
jured when two northwestern rood
passenger trains collided last night
at a turntable track intersection
near Monico, 15 miles southeast os
here.
TEXAN BEATEN TO
DEATH BY BANDITS
ece Royenk
eunumwe—
Votes to Retain
Relief Commission
AUSTIN, Feb. 9—(P—(PIGover-
nor Miriam A. Ferguson has been
defeated in her effort to obtain in-
creased representation on the Tex-
as Relief Commission, agency in
charge of disbursement of funds
said she especially'enjoyed visiting I Borah (R-Ida» arose to debate the
in Denton Oounty in the winter' resolution and it had to be passed
because of the pleasant weather.
Although colder weather is due
in Denton tongnt, wit a treeze
in prospect, there was no ndication
of a repetition of the severe bliz-
zard that prevailed in this section
a year ago when the temperature
dropped to two degrees above zero.
Some parts of the country, howev-
er. are having an experience at
this time somewhat similar to
that of this section last year. In
New York City a new low mark for
February was reached Friday when
the mercury dropped to 14 3 de-
crees below zero. No promise of
relief was given that section. While
the Southwest is due for another
taste of winter tonight, the bureau
forecast calls for warmer and fair
weather tomorrow.
fast. Trains from the west were late
from two to three hours. Floating
toe decked the Hudson and East
Rivera. ’ '.
The cold gripped up-state New
York. Records were reported at many
mountain points. Weedsport, tn the
western part of the state, had 54 de-
grees below zero weather. Sardinia.
, in Erie County, reported the low-
est temperature in the state—M be-
low. /
Lake Erie was .froton from shore
to shore at one point.
Sub-zero temperatures obtained
throughout Pennsylvania. In Phila
delphia it was minus 11.——
Schools Cloeed
Schools were closed near Lake
Hopatcong, N. J., where it was 32
MACCRACKENFORFAILURETO
APPEAR IN CONTEMPT CASE
PAULSBORO, N. J., Feb. 9—(PP)
—Fire early today destroyed five
buildings at the linoleum manufac-
turing plant of Sandurs. Inc., two
small apartment houses and three
bungalows with a loss estimated
An automobile registration year
from April 1 to March 31 would be
provided, and use of 1934 plater
until March 31, 1935, would be vaU-
dated.
The Senate vote gave the bill four
more than the 31 votes necessary te
put it into immediate effect upon
approval of the governor. If the
House accords it 100. affirmativr
votes. ’---------
be such as to . make impossible his
attendance at college without thir
aid. Not more than 75 per cent at
the funds allotted to any institu-
tion shall be paid to students who
were regularly enrolled in some col-
lege during January, 1934.
Can Enroll Yet
Jobs shall be allocated between
boys and girls in proportion to the
enrollment of each in the particular
school. The student shall be of good
character and judged by the usual
methods of determining ability em-
ployed by the particular college
shall possess such as to give assur-
ance, that' they will da high grade
work in the college. The hourly rate
of pay shall be such as is commonly
paid by the Institution for the type
of service rendered, but not leer
than 30 cents an hour. No students
shall work more than 30 hours in
any week or more than eight hours
in one day.
Marquis said that applications are
being made now, and that students
will be able to come this late and
enroll in classes. Because of their
late start in the semester, the stu-
dents will have to take less work
than ordinarily, he said.
Seven families were made home-
less. two firemen were Injured and
several sufTred from frostbite as
they battled the flames in sub-zero
weather.
f d Mrs. 6 E Pinnet, -konher rem-
"dent of Denton County but now
‘ living in Moffat, Colo, is thegest
f - or Mrs M PT Lamkin and other__— __________
» friends la Ponder Mrs. Finnell l tion and it carried, but Senator
♦ —former Assistant
♦ of Commerce for
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 9.—(P—
The law bayed close on the heeir
of Edward Bremer's kidnapers. to-
day.
The hunt swung in widening cir-
cles, blazed by several definite clues
while the 37-year-old victim of the
kidnapers remained abed under doc-
tor’s orders.
The department of justice, priding
Itself on a near-perfect record in
running down abductors, bent meth-
odically over a trail, three days
cold, that led from St. Paul ane
ended at Rochester. Minn., where
Bremer was freed late Wednesday
night.
Other trails were being swiftly
followed, too. There were leads
which gave definite indications that
the law was not far behind the kid-
napers and the (300.000 ransom the
gang exacted for Bremer’s release
The officers had, among other in-
formation, the stoly of Bremer him-
self. The president and owner of
the Commercial State Bank was
no* as helpful as they had hoped
officers admitted, but his story gave
them several pegs on which to hang
a plan of action.
tral portions, free* nearly to esast
it clear tonight. Saturday, zeneral-
ty fair, not so cola m west and
north portions UgM to moderate
northerly winds m the coast.
J B. Bartee, 84, died ih his home
at Krum at 5 p. m. Thursday. Fu-
neral services were to be held in
the Methodist Church at Krum
Friday afternoon at 1 p. m., conduct-
ed by the pastor. Rev. M C. Scot-
er. arid burial was to be in the
Chinn’s Chapel cemetery near Lew-
isville. ’
Bartec is survived by four chil-
dren, H. B. Bartee of Krum, J. H
Bartee of Little Elm. Mrs. O. K
Heilig and Mrs. E. H. Harris, both
of Stark City, Mo. He was a mem-
ber of the Methodist Church. Hr
was born in Alabama and had lived
in Texas 46 years and In Denton
County 45 years.
PARIS, Feb 9—W—Gaston Dou-
mergue, 71-year-old premier-desig-
nate, turned his back on youthru
enthusiasts this afternoon to name
a cabinet at experienced veterans
banded together by the crisis threat-
ening their France.
Some half a dozen former pre
miers were named in the ministry
which Doumergue planned to pre-
sent later in the day to President
Lebrun for the chief executive's ap-
proval.
Two of the strongest political vet-
erans in France today—former Pre-
miers Andre Tardieu and Edouare
Herriot—agreed to serve in this
time of need as "ministers of state"
without portfolios.
The cabinet is slightly leftist or
advanced liberal in complexion with
only the communists and the the so-
ctalist faction headed by Deputy
Leon Blum left out of the selectron.
Even as Doumergue selected hir
ministers, however, street disorders
as a prelude to the general strike
called Monday, again threatened
Paris
Soldiers were moved toward th*
workers’ suburbs in the eastern part
of the city in anticipation of com-
munist demonstrations.
Troops were stationed everywhere
AUSTIN. Feb. 9.——The Texas
Senate today voted 35 to 3 to adopt
a free conference report on a bill
to extend the time tor payment of
automobile registration fees until
March 31 u a permanent policy. It
would authorize remittance of pen-
alties collected from registrants
since February 1. the final date for
payment under the existing law. The
by the plant superintendent at >1,- tulescu; Yugoslavia by Bosko Jeft-
106,000. ' Itch, and Turkey by Foreign Min-
She had suggested the governor
be allowed to appoint two mem-
bers of a new commission, she also
to be a voting member. Three
members would be appointed by
each of the Lutenant-Qovernor and
ATHENS, Feb. 9 —(P)—The Balk-
an non-aggression pact, which it is
hoped'will change the whole history
of this stormy peninsula, was sign-
ed formally today by representatives
of Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and
Rumania.
The pact was seen as offering an
opportunity for economic collabora-
tion by the long non-co-operativa
55,000,000 inhabitants of these four
countries.
The absence of envoys from Bul-
garia and Albania cast a shadow
over the ceremony in the historic
audience chamber of the Greek
academy, but it was said Bulgaria
might accept later.
Signatory nations agree among
oSher things to guarantee one an-
other's frontiers for five years.
Greece was represented by Pre-
mier Panayoti Tsai darts: Rumania
by Foreign Minister Nicholas Ti-
An attempt to get college stu-
dents “off the roads" is being made
through CWA loans to institutions
that are non-profit making Over
*3,000 per month has been allotted
Teachers College to give students
who are now, for financial reasons,
out of school and unable to attend
an opportunity to attend school thir
semester, according to Dr. R. L
WEST TEXAS: Partly etondy
warmer in west and north porons
tonight Saturday partly eloudy,
of the chairman of‘the industrial warmer to north andensi poruom
capitalization under the going-con-
oern value head.
His thesis that going-concern
value could property be based on
a 60 per cent construction at the
time the plant was built, not al-
lowing in the basis the 50 per cent
to be added piece-meal, from time
to time, wm also put under fire by
Newcomb.
“That basis was used,” Nichols
said, “since it was presumed that
the remaining 50 per cent would
not be built to lie Idle but would
be added, piece by piece, as the
customer demand arose.”
dents may be selected for the jobs
on the following considerations: Gate Rate Order
The students' financial status shall ate Kate •raer
Ships hugged harbors in the
North and Baltic Beas.
The New England and North At-
lantic states and Eastern Canada
bore the brunt of the sub-zero
weather in America.
Nine Dead
Nine deaths were attributed dir-
ectly or indirectly to the cold. Fa-
talities. by cities, were: Boston 3,
New York 3, Philedelphta 1, Buffalo
3, and Schenectady 1.
Records were shattered in several
cities.—=---
In New York City:
The temperature dropped to 14.3
degrees below zero. A record low for
RANDALLSTOWN, Md. —
Weighed down with snow and
ice, a straw stack overturned on
Herbert Russell, 18, in th* Rus-
sell farm yard, pinning him un-
der a ton or more of straw.
His brother, Edward, 27, ran
to hie old and removed the
straw, handful by handful, for
fearing of hurting the youth it
he used a pitchfork.
It of 46.1 per cent or *675.588, on its
, army contracts. ■ , ____
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Marquis, president.
. ueww. —______________.Practically the n responsibility
the Pocono mountains of Penn- 01 carrying out the spirit of this
program is placed on the president
LUFKIN, Feb. 9—U—A 21-
year-o’d man arrested om •
highway near here today la
eunnecton with th* murder
and robbery at C. E Canster
of Zavalla, has confesed to the
crime. County Attorney Mar-
vin Trevathan aid.
—t
ZAVALLA, Angeina County, Feb.
9—(P—Three hundred citizens ted
by deputy sherirts scoured this sec-
tion today for two men who beat
Charles Cansled. T0-year-old Za-
valla resident, to d*ath. slugged
his aged win• and state a stem
the Canster home
Mrs Canster was alugged but was
not considered in a dangerous con-
dition.
The bandits teft the aged man
bound and gagged on the floor.
Hl* wife wm found bound and
sagged on a bed nearby.
Reyfved enough to talk. Mrs.
Canaler Mid the two men came to
their home about 4am, just af-
ter they had arisen this morning,
slugged her husband and herseir
and took the sate and nod.
a tolen autome-
Hie stuck to the mud near » pump
station several miles filial here.
They belters the bancta tried to
escape to this car, and when it
bogged down, fled on foot.
NEGRO EXECUTED AT ARKAN- Speaker of the House. .
The existing set-up is composed
increase the occupation tax on box-
ing and wrestling promoters was
introduced in the Texas House
today by Representative J. N. Reed
of Texarkana.
Promoters to cities of less than
25.000 population would be taxed
♦75. In cities of 75,000 or less, *150,
and in cities of more than. 75,000
population, *300.
A tax of four cents per pound
on oleomargarine, compounded
chiefly from imported oils, was
proposed to a bill , by Representa-
tive A. B. Tarwater of Plainview.
a. 1 1
1 .
(By Associated Preas)
Intense cold and storms
ruled over two continents to-
day. The U. S. Weather Bu-
reau celebrated its 64th an-
niversary by recording many
all-time lows in tempera-
tures.
In Europe, Germany and Stan-
- dinavia ware struck by a gale which
- caused widespread damage and. was
directly responsible for several
deaths.
TWO FOUND guIrr ON BANK
CHARGES
CLEVELAND. O, Feb 9.--
Alvanley Johnston, grand chief of
the Brothertood of Locomotive E-
gineers, and C. Stirling Smith, presi-
dent of the now cMaad Standard
Trust Bank, were found guilty My
a jury here today on charge of mis-
applying $450,000 of Um benks
funds and of making false entries.
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hrapprovan after the Ho^of February.Twolargglinersweresde-
Representatives has adopted the re- ivdgsmankrhousubwaystaoors “tlone
Port- '-----------------—------
AUSTTN, Feb. 9—4PA 64#+-te exaculy what they are nghting over
Franco has got more different po-
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CITY’S $289,000 APPRAISAL OF
•cEA5
of the college or university partici-
pating The work must be carried
through the emergency educational
relief director, George H Fern of
Austin, according to infotmatior
Marquis has received from Dr
George F. Zook, commissioner ol
education.
For One Semester
The allotment of funds was made
to cover only the current semeste:
and does not include the summer of
1934. "The jobs are allocated on the
basis of enrollment of full-time stu-
dents of collage grade, or higher, a
of Oct. 15. 1933," Zook writes.
On this basis Teachers College
will be allowed to extend this aid
to 55 men and *3 women. Marquis
said. The pay to each case is to be
from *10 to *30 per month per stu-
dent. The allotment to each col-
lege is to be based on an average of
*15 per month per student.
The types of work for which the
fund allotted may be used cover the
range of Jobs customarily done in
the Institution by students working
their way through college. The stu-
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.— (AP)-The Senate, defied
today by William P. MacCracken—Hoover assistant sec-
retary of commerce for air—ordered bis arrest.
He failed to appear for the sche- ----
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9——
President Roosevet sent, a mes-
sage to Congress today asking
regulation of the “operations of
exchanges dealing in securities
and commodities."
Declaring the exchanges as
necessary and of definite valor.
Mr. Roosevelt added: “Never-
theless. R should be our nation-
al policy to restrict, as far as
possible the use of these ex-
change* for purely speculative
operations."
“I therefore recommend to
the Congress the
legislation providing for the reg-
ulation by the federal govern-
ment of the operation of ex-
changes dealing In securities
and commodities for the pro-
tection of la vest sis, for the
safeguarding of values, and so
far as it may be possible, for
the rumination of unnecessary,
unwise and destructive specula-
tion."
Mr. Roosevelt left it to Con-
greas to frame lie own measure.
R was emphasised at the
White How that he had not
seen nor approved nor disap-
proved any bill or bills drawn
for introduction on Capitot
Hill.
$150,000,000 TO BUY COTTON
FAVORED
♦ WASHINGTON, Feb. 9— ♦
+ (P—The Senate Agriculture ♦
♦ committee today favorably re- ♦
♦ ported a bill by Chairman ♦
♦ Smith (-80 authorising the ♦
+ purchase of $150,000,000 worth +
♦ of cotton and cotton products ♦
♦ for free distribution to the ♦
♦ needy. ♦
>♦ *♦»»>•>*♦♦ n*»m ♦ ♦*♦ ♦
by setting a* $8,000 a sum which
the gas company engineers had tes-
tified was “conservatively” put at
$28,950.
Experience Questioned
The cross-examination of Nich-
ols wm conducted by Marshall
Newcomb, with stress on the fset
that the engineer’s actual experi-
ence in supervletag construction had
laid with water and sewer systems
rather than cas, and with public
projects rather than private jobs.
Newcomb's questloning was also
aimed to establish that Nichols had
under-estimated th* cost of plpe-
laying, of securing legal services
and satisfying bankers or other
financial agents whom the promot-
ers of the project hoped to get the
money, from.
The gas company attorney also
attacked Nichols' appraised of go-
ing -concern value, emphasizing that
it did not include such items—
included in the gas company valua-
tion—as taxes. Interest on Idle
plant, customer-use, saturation ex-
penditures and so on.
Vwed Different "Beate ”
Nichols said he had included an
over-all sum above other costs
which he considered should take
care of all such expenses as were
proper, but he did not believe they
should properly be included for
moved steadily and quietly. in
comparison with the hour of heat-
(Continued on Fag Mive)
Denies Authority
MacCracken's letter, read in a
cear voice to the Senate by its read-
ing clerk, John Crockett, said the
supreme court had “distinctly held
that while each House of Congres’
had implied power to deal with con-
tempt that power does not extend
to infliction of punishment as such "
While senators listened in aston-
ishment. and the galleries remain-
ed. as silent as if empty. Crockett
read MacCracken’s concise chal-
lenge to the Senate; in which he
contended to appear would violate
his constitutional rights and,added :
"This I respectrully decline to
do."
The former assistant secretary nt
commerce said the power of th
congressional Houses was a "powe:
to prevent acts" which would ob-
struct .the discharge of their legisla-
tive duties and to "com pel the doin-
of those things that were required
in connection with legislation, but
that punishment was “exclusively a
judicial function and not a legis-
lative one."
Says Rights Disregarded
“To appear at the bar of the Sen-
ate would be to give assent to the
powers that do not constitutionally
belong o it.” MacCracken said, ad
ing that It would result in a ' viola-
tion of the rights guaranteed to me
by the the constitution.
MacCracken’s letter outlined the
events leading , up to his arrest.
The attorney asserted that he
produced for the committee atl pa-
pers relating to air mail contract’
except those he was not at liberty
to precent. At the committee’s re-
quest. he recounted, he sent tele-
grams to all clients asking whether
they desired to waive the asserted
privileged relation.
MacCracken said lie recognizee’
the committee’s right to Issue the
subpoena and require him to pro-
duce air mail documents to the ex
tent that he could do so without
violating his client's rights.
Waivers were received fror al'
clients just before the Senate war-
rant was served on him, he said.
That a restoration of confidence,
beld to be essential to a revival c*
business conditions, is well on the
way toward fruition is the view
of many financiers and others of
large means, according to a Den-
tm banker Friday. He said a ban-
ker from - a large Central State
city, here on business, had ex-
pressed th" opinion that buying
power, which will mean a revival
in business. Is certain to be cre-
ated by the present national ad-
mtntstratlon efforts, and that Tex-
as. with Its Urge cotton acreage
and diversified interests, is one of
the most favored sections of the
country for a substantial business
betterment.
Big Profit Made
On Army Planes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—cP-
Testimony that private contractors
since 1926 averaged a 19 8 per cent
profit on army airplane business
was given to the House Military
Affairs Committee today by Harry
H Woodring, Assistant Secretary
of Wa r
Since 1926, Woodring added, ar-
my airplane purchases on which
19 8 per cent profit was made to-
talled “about $6 1,000,000."
In the last three and a half
years, the secretary continued, the
contracts’ total had been 824.500,-
000 “and the average profit brought
down ot about 8 9 per cent."
Discussing a $7,500,000 allocation
of public works funds for army
airplane purchases. Woodring said
“There have been many airplane
men in my office saying they would
like to see porduction contracts on
a more competitive basis."
Huge Profits Made
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9——
The House Military Affairs Com-
mittee was told today that on"
contractor made such a big profit
on his army business that he agreed
to sell 50 additional airplanes to
the army for a dollar apiece.
The contractor was the Consol-
idated Aircraft Company of Buf-
falo. New York, the committee was
told.
Brigadier General H Conger
Pratt, in charge of airplane pro-
curement for the army, said that
an army audit in 1927, showed
consolidated had made a total prof-
Informaton regarding the re-
qutrements for teachers in non-ac-
credited state aid schools has beer
interpreted by the state department
ot education in a letter received by
J. L. Yarbrough, counw superinten-
dent. explaining the statement sent
out by the department recently.
Qualifications for teachers ir
non-accredited schools for the 1934-
---------35 term call for a minimum ortwe
-------years college training or the equival-
. ent and are required to hold a Tex-
as, teacher's certificate of no lower
standing than a six-year elementary
or a four-year high school grade.
The regulations are made so that
the schools may be accredited as
soon as possible, and the standard
may be raised It teachers now work-
■ Ing in these schools attend colleger
or universities during the summere
Under a new project of the
CWA, a number of students may
be given financial assistance in
attending the two Denton colleges.
Funds have been allocated to both
the C. I. A. and the Teachers
College which can be used to pay
salaries of student* for performing
services at the colleges. Only those
m —btudents otherwise unable to at-
tend school will be accepted under
• the provisions of the allotments,
and each may earn enough to aid
materially in defraying his college
expenses. The funds allocated to
the Denton colleges are part of a
large sum to be spent over the
Vnited States’in the movement to
keep young people in college who
are capable of doing good cass-
work but who are not financially
able to continue their education.
to the destitute.
Tile House yesterday amended a
bill proposing issuance of $4,000,000
in relief bond* to provide for con-
tinuance of the present board, of
which the governor is ex-omclo _
chairman without a vote and,to -
_ nor, three by the speaker and on*
by the chief executive. warnings
to air companies that benefited
from air mall contracts in the last
administration, were on hand, how-
ever.
Once the MacCracken position
had been read to the Senate, Sen-
ator Black (D-Ala), chairman 01
tile committee investigating an
mail contracts. Introduced the reso-
lution ordering MacCracken’s im-
mediate arrest. It was adopted with-
out a record vote.
MacCracken had been free on his
personal bond.
Trial Suspended
He, as their counsel, and th'
other three were cited on charger
of contempt of the Senate in re-
moval of evidence from MacCracke
en's files after these had been sub-
poenaed.
The trial of the other three de-
fendants, L H. Brittin, vice presi-
dent of the Northwest Airways;
ROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
Tlie new boarding plan for stu-
dents Is expected by college au-
thorities to result in an increased
enrollment in the C. I. A next fall.
Under the new plan, as formallv
announced Thursday, not only will
the charge for board and rooms
in the college dormitories be mate-
rially reduced, but those students
who do not feel able to pay the
cost of the accommodation* in the
Kormitories will be permitted to do
> light housekeeping. The latter
method of “getting by" while at-
tending college has become In-
creasingly popular at colleges dur-
ing the past several years, and
many have found that they could
not finance a college education
except by doing their own work
in medium -priced quarters and thus
materially reducing living expenses.
Appraisals of the opposing group*
of engineers did not show a mark-
ed difference as to actual physical
construction costs, but differed
widely on the amounts that should
be put under the headings of "col:
lateral construction costs" and
"non-physical values”
items at Variance
Nichols’ appraisal allowed around
*2.490 for the expenses preliminary
and during organtzation of a proj-
ected gas plant, where the compa-
ny appraisal had put about 59,-
950.
His administrative and legal ex-
penses during construction were
set at $4,981, compared with the
mas company’s appraisal allowance
of 89,975.
His allowance for interest on
capital used during construction
'figured at 6 per cent) wm $5,200
while the company evidence had 1
been based on eight per cent ana ,
allowed *8.773.
For working capital, Nichols set
out M587—about half the $13,454 1
sum listed under that heading in 1
the Municipal appraisal.
Nichols’ allowance for “going- i
concern” value—the amount reas- <
enable to allow for expenditures to
bring the plant’s business to its 1
present point - climaxed and put an
exchmation point on the fiture
between the two opposed valuations
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