The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 205, Ed. 2 Monday, May 25, 1931 Page: 2 of 16
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MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
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By George Chrk AQTRESS SHOT,
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3-PIECE WOOL SUITS REDUCED
(Year-’Round Weights
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GROUP 1
Were Up to 050
AIRPORT CHARGES
Former North Side High Teacher
GROUP 2
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CONFERENCE SOON
All Sizes—Seasonable Styles
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city
manager of
latter that
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is inclined to give
nympathetie
Were Up to 090
and prompt coneideration to the |
Were Up to 095
1 each other to cut charges.
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OUR SHOW WINDOWS TELL THE STORY!
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equalization board to hear
WASHERS
pro-
tests of property owners
against
LEON GROSS, Pres.
MAIN at EIGHTH
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fabrics for year-round wear. For now, for
travel and cooler climes, for later Fall wear.
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HEALTH, FOUND SHOT
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DALLA!
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may cut out items in the appro-
priation bills and approve the re-
ASK REDUCTION
IN MEAT PRICE
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Tarrant County Commissfoners
Court Monday took the oath as an
F
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application.
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rate-inerease
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W ool Suits at low prices.
be accepted as passed or be ve-
toed altogether.
By United Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25.—
Miss Harriet Manning, playing
here with De Wolfe Hopper in
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PIPE LINE REPORTS LOSS
NEW YORK, May 25. — The
Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Com-
pany today reported a net loss
of 144,758 for the period ended
pointed out, because aviation con-
cerns have been playing them off
Fort Worth Freshman Wins Hon-
or at NTAO Exercises
na Dickinson, and daughter. Lou
tie, of 207% East .Third.
All Other Departments Phone t-5151
CRATON GUTHRIE IS
BEST DRILLED CADET
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tax assessments. The hearings will
start June 15. Notices to protest-
fng property owners to appear be-
fore the board will be sent out In
the next few weeks.
A great 5-day event that makes it Good Busi-
ness for you to save—Good Business for us
to turn our stocks.
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effort tow
vote for 1
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world famous makers. Styles, models and
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It’s Good Business for You to Save—It’s
Good Business for us to turn our Stocks
Broken Sizes— Odds and Ends
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the other railway prewidents. He Dallas, told‘Carr he would”be in
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Side Glances
GOOD BUSINESS SALE
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CHIEF OPERATOR BACK
Mrs. Mary Buergener, chief op-
erator at City Hall, was back
Monday from a 10-day trip to
Southern Texas and Mexico. She
was accompanied on the trip by
her husband, H. F. Buergener.
Early Tri
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CARRIES ON IN
PLAY REVIVAL
Harriet Manning Appears
For Rehearsals After
Being Wounded
By United ri
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ply by Po
mell leak
week-end
rounded
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evidence
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May 1. i
of beer 1
sewers a
and fine
records.
Tramm
wholesale
fie here
84′7
revenue. On this theory, that the
money would be spent in wages
"serviee," the latter would get . , ,
’he benefit of most of the added ■ mainins parts.
in 3 Great Groups)
with deserting his wife, Mrs. Len- gregation of King's Highway
the commission
Livestock Exchange Enlists i
Hyde’s Help
By United Press.
OMAHA, May 25.—Secretary
of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde
W. Craton Guthrie Jr., son or
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Guthrie or
1500 College, is the best drilled
cadet at North Texas Agricultural
College at Arlington. ' >
Guthrie, a freshman, was chos-
en Sunday out of eight cadets.
Norman Hargreaves of Dsllas was
second. Capt. George Groves of
Dallas was awarded a silver saber 1
as the most efficient cadet officer
in the corps.
The students of the college will
be graduated today. The bacca
laureate exercises were held Sun-
the recent ruling of the Court of . .. .—.. . ..
Criminal Appeals, wife and child of University Christian Church,
desertion cases as felonies. were returned Saturday from Shreve
heard in Criminal District Court port. Rev. Gray spoke before the
* Dickinson has not been arrest Rotary Club, of which he fa s
ed on the charge, filed In Count) former member and director. They
Court at Law No 1. He is charged were also entertained by the con-
Insection of the ;
project into th* I
a revival of Pinafore, carfted on
In the best traditions of the
theater today by appearing for profits of $109,971 for the
rehearsals despite a painful gun-1 responding period In 1930.
SAFE STUMPS BURGLAR
HOUSTON, May 25.—A bur-
glar-proof safe in a large gro-
cery store here Is really burglar-
proof. The combination dial
was beaten off, punches and
crowbars were used, and from
the number of elgaret stubs
found nearby, the yeggs must
have worked most of the night,
but they were forced to leave
empty-handed. police discovered
here today,
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Gulf coast and start a survey of
the work accomplished by the
Texas legislature. He will decide
what bills he will approve and
determine if a special session
shall be called.
The governor has 20 days in
which to veto or approve approxi-
mately 15 bills that have been
left upon his desk. Among them
are the appropriation bills and
motor truck regulation bills. He
A conference on standard air-
port service charges for Fort
Worth and Dallas will be held
soon. City Manager O. E. Carr
sald Monday.
morrow from a week-end on the was called upon by the Omahi
Livestock Exchange today tt
out, Interstate Commerce Com-
mineloner Joe Eastman told the
New York Traffic Club last week.
“Unification is necessarily a
slow process," he said. “There is
nothing new about it. It has been
< progressing steadily for many
year- and it will continue to pro-
L grey. Efforts to accelerate it
k will almost inevitably Do
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Fort Worth later this week to
41Acusn the proposal. Both cities
keenly alive to the situation and are losing money, it has been
shot wound inflicted by a ban-
dit.
Miss Manning was sitting in
an auto with Carl Kroenke, an-
other member of the company.
Saturday night when a man
leaped on the running board and
demanded their money.
When Kroenke replied he had
none, the bandit fired, the bel-
ief striking Miss Manning in the
side. Kroenke grappled with the
man but he broke loose and fled.
Miss Manning insisted upon
continuing her role, appearing
for rehearsals as usual.
First Misdemeanor Case Filed
After Change in Law
John Dickinson, painter, was
charged with wife and child de-
sertion in the first such case filed
in County Court at Law since the
statute making the offense a fel-
ony was held unconstitutional.
Misdemeanors are filed in the
County Courts at Law. Before
KE2E
SCHEDULE NOW
BEING FORMED
KX Will Treat Matter As
An Emergency Measure,
Officials Indicate
Ing public getting much, if any. i
benefit from the decline. This
restricts consumption and Is
causing the grower tnd feeder
heavy losses. Beef cattle are
selling the lowest for the month
of May since 1911 with hogs
correspondingly low.
“Will you please thru your
channel of publications and news-
papers bring pressure on the re-
tailers. hotel and restaurant men
of the country to reduce their
prices on meat products in line
with the decline of the cost of
the live animal?
“This would Increase consump-
tion and relieve the present de-
moralized condition for fat live-
stock.”
A. D. Majors is presidert of
the Omaha Exchange. The let-
ter was said to have received
the unanimous approval of all
members of the organization.
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and materials, is based their claim
• hat the new rates would encour-
age a general business revival.
But this view is by no meant
uoanimouw, for other executives
assert that the primary need is
to bolster credit, not service.
"The pressing need is to pro-
teet the railroads from impending
financial difficulties and insoly-
eneles," it was asserted today by
President George P. MeNear of
•ho Toledo, Peoria & Western.
“Apparently the federal admin-
istration opposes sny redudetion
in expenses, therefore Increased
revenues offer the only solution.
“Railroad facilities are now In
excess of requirements on account
of government - subsidized water-
way and highway competition.
The railroads should strengthen
their eredit rather than make un-
necessary expenditures.
Better in Iong Run.
“While this may not stimulate
Industry immediately, it would be
far better in the long run than
the course suggested. Unless the
railroads' credit is improved, a
far reaching and unfortunate situ-
ation may develop, affecting ship-
pers, bank depositors, insurance
policy-holders, and the taxpayers
at large, which would seriously
postpone the country's economic
recovery.”
President Daniel Willard of the
Baltimore t Ohio is keeping
members of the ICC intimately
posted on the development of the
railroads' appltcation, Willard,
who enjoys the friendship of most
of the commissi mers, has benn
acting as an informal liaison of-
ficer between the commineon and !
Bills that were passed with
four fifths vote in both the House
and Renate, bearing an emergency
clause, are effective upon the gov-
ernor's signature. Others take
effect Saturday, Aug. 22.
So far the governor has vetoed
no bill passed by the legislature.
One of the last bills passed was
correction of the caption on the
wife and eMM desertion act. Un-
der old laws such desertion had
been a misdemeanor. Misdemea-
nor offenders can not be extra-
dited from other states.
In order to bring offenders
against this law back to Texas,
a former Legislature made de-
sertion a felony. Recently the
Court of Criminal Appeals, in a
case from Harrison County, held
that the caption on the felony
bill was faulty. Attorney Gen-
eral James V. Allred advised dis-
trict attorneys that this ruling
left the former statute in effect I
making desertion a misdemean- |
or. He advised prosecutions un-
der the old statute.
If the governor signs the cor-1
recting bill, wife and child de- j
sertton will again become a fel-
ony.
"appisetlonPlannssd a l about the lobster salads they serve on the ships."
minimum of delay. Railroad *x- ;
eeutives have been assured that 7K DII I Q niir
the ICC, whish usually .proceeds f fl nil I X IIIIr
slowly during the summer. is pre- 1 * • HILkV MUL
pared to treat their petition as an j rAn mnnnnuIAI
emergehey matter and give it the -IIK APPKIIVAI
right of way over other pending IUn HIIIUVHL
applications. _______
Some executives are hOpefUl 04 «. 4 04 IT J
that such increases as may be Sterling to Start Tuesday on
granted will be made effective i Toch nt Cinninr
during the quarter which begins laaR UI Pgmng
July 1, and that the fulleffectnyEnttaPrena.
of the Increases Mill be applicable । AUSTIN Mav 25 -Gov Ross
to earnings during the last quar- AL 5TTM: May zbGoV Koss
ter of the year. Sterling will return to Austin to-
The railroads want to boost ree. to _ .. —L___ ___ ..
Tuesday to Saturday Inclusive-5 Days Only
SorpmeMoward Xewepeper Alllance
WASHINGTON, May 88—Ex
perts of the eastern railroads are
Hairing the freight rate strue-
rare with a view to ascertaining
bow revenues CM be Increased i
and will submit their recommen- 1
datione to a conferenee of railway 1
exeeutives this week — probably I
Friday or Saturday.
At this meeting a decision wiil
be reached on a procedure to be
followed in applying to the Inter-
eUto Commerce Commission for
suthority to increase rates. Eith-
er of two methods may be pur-
tued, H was learned today from
• a railroad spokesman;
1 The roads may designate a
group of commodities on whieh
they belleve rates could be in-
creased without reducing the vol-
ume of traffic or diverting any of
it to trucks, pipe lines or steam-
hips,
2. The executives, after study-
ing the experts' findings, may de-
eide to present all their data to
— the ICC, along with a letter point-
ing out the acute need for a rev-
enue increase, but leaving to the
discretion of the commission the
method of producing this new
revenue
Application Speeded.
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, accompanied by financial excesses
and waste.”
Truck Competition
That the competition of trucks
and buses, pipe lines ■ and air-
planes may bring about Important
rate changes was Indicated by
Eastman in his New York ad-
dress.
As a matter of fact, the ICC I'
now in the midst orfevining the
rate structures affecting impor-
tant commodities.
This work was undertaken by
order of the Hoch-Smith resolu-
tion, passed by Congress In 1925.
The commission began some 16
neparate Inquiries several of
which are still in' progress. It is,
indeed, a decision in one of these
inquiries that lies behind the
present demand for increase
rates.
This was the so-called grain and
grain products case, decided about
* zenr Ago, Its effect was to cut
railroad revenues by millions—
soma estimated the loss as high
as 845,000,000 annually. Protests
started immediately and reached a
climax early this month whan a
Chicago court stayed execution of
the commisnlon’s order putting the
lower grain rates Into effect.
Other decisions In the same gen-
eral investigation have increased
the carriers’ revenues, hovever.
Theprond result to date has been
eqtXizetio"
Dies From Wound
Frank Stripling, 50. dairyman,
at 2300 Avenue G, was found i
lying in his home at 8 a. m.
Monday with a bullet wound thru 1
his heart.
Relatives said Mr. Stripling
had been in poor health for more
than a year and had been par-
ticularly despondent for the last
month. Justice of Peace J. H.
Faulkner returned a verdict of
suicide.
Mr. Stripling’s wife and son,
Raymond, were in the house
when he arose. They heard a
shot and found him on the floor,
his 4 4-callbor revolver beside
him. A Shannon's Polytechnic
ambulance took him to Harris
Hospital, where he died.
Mr. Stripling came to Fort
Worth from McKinney In 1903
and was an English teacher at
North Side High School from
1905 to 1907. Then he farmed
near Grapevine until 1917, when
he cams hack here and estab-
lished a dairy.
He leaves his widow, three
sons, Howard of Wichita Falls
and Raymond and Morris of
Fort Worth, and a daughter,
Mrs. R. L. Porter of Oklahoma
City.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
their revmu»t by at least $400,-
000.909 a year. This is the an-
nual loss they are now suffering.
It Ie said.
Just what the roads would do
with the $400,000,000 in new
revenue is a question that few of
•he exeeutives are willing to an-
swer in specific terms. Their
deeision in New York last week
was to ask for a rate level that
would "restore the credit and the
serviee of the carrier!."
Buy More Material.
Some railroad leaders maintain
'hat, as between "credit” and i
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BuqomewmgrenTT"v
railroad pleture bar shunted into
the baekeround the "our-system
eonsolidntion piou sponsored by
President Hooer, who hoped the
merger would bring lower, rather
than higher, rates to the public.
Not Yet Abawlonml.
The consolidation has not heen >
abandoned, but the railroads evi-
dently decided it vould be too
slow a way out of their financial
trouble!,
Hoover’s announcement at tne
time revealed that, at his in-
stance, the presidents of the Penn-
sylvania, Baltimore A Ohio, Siew
York Central and Nickel Plate had
conferred and agreed on the gen-
eral plan pf consolidation.
Theoretically, from the rail-
roads point of view, consolidation
and higher rates would reach the
same goal—higher revenues—but
by different mutes. The foriner
would reduce expenses, while the
latter would inerease income.
But thia theory of the reaulta
of mergers doss not always work
"bring pressure on the retallers
hotel and restaurant men of the
country to reduce their prices on
meat products in line with the
decline of the cost of the live
animal.”
A letter addressed to Hyde in
which the request was made j
reads as follows:
"As market representatives of
the majority of the livestock I
growers and feeders of the coun-
try, we want to call your atten- |
tion to the wide discrepancy ex- :
Isting between the wholesale !
and retail prices of meat and i
meat products, especially beef !
and pork.
"Prices of livestock have de-
clined sharply during the past
two months without the consum- 1
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Minteer, Edwin D. & Schulz, Herbert D. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 205, Ed. 2 Monday, May 25, 1931, newspaper, May 25, 1931; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1552682/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.