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investigating the
Police
were
—Gen. Ivan Peeff, 70-year-old chief
Havas,
conscious.)
French news agency, said ths as*
EVENING
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DESPITE CUBS' LOSS IN SERIES, JOHNNY ENGLISH STILL CLINGS TO LIFE
.72 Inch, First
Hl, physician had said his will
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Bench Refuses
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AFTER NLRB ATTACK—
AFL Demands Revisions
ly Opposes
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A TAIL-END GOES ROLLING ALONG
Smith on Board
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urday and Sunday shutdowns"
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Typo Unionists
Entertain Chief
In Air 45 Hours—
TEXAS PILOTS LAND WITH ENDURANCE RECORD
Thursday.
borite, said
delegates today demanded nine
sweeping changes in the Wag-
ner act and ordered a show.
the behest of heads of the In-
terstate Circuit, Inc., which op-
cisions denying freedom to Thomas
J. Mooney, serving a life sentence !
for conviction on charges of parti- .
Delegates to AFL
Convention Here
For District Meet
wounded. No reason for the mur-
der was known.
Russians Brand
Lindbergh Liar’
Airmen Claim Data Given Chamberlain
Caused Surrender of Czechoslovakia
with marketing theit l ambs and
calves at be low-par values. With a
dry winter in prospect, many live-
Committee Lists
! Nine Proposals to
Alter Wagner Act
CONVENTION HALL,
HOUSTON, Oct. 10.—(UP—
American Federation of Labor
Macedonian.
Major Stoyanoft, an aide accom-
It is up to Texas producer, to get
this business." A
theory that the assassination waa
part of a plot in which other, were
involved, but neither police nor mil-
itary authorities five details.
Pi
legal action In see of the moat
celebrated civil liberties fights
of the century Mooney e peti-
tion to the high court waa rt-
yarded as a last resort in his
battle to have the conviction
reversed.
The Dotation of the court order
list, denying the petition said that
Justices Black and Reed dissented
Specification of the dissents waa
almost unprecedented in the recol-
lection of veterans court observers
Only avenue now remaining
open to Mooney. It waa bellev-
ed, is a further plea to the ex-
-Confusion has been diseipat-
ed. but much bitterness remains
and there is little chance of anv
appreciable decree of unity." mald
Baker referring to the conmiet
between Juda L lewis CIO and
the AFL .
"In the past three or four years
"particularly whether the situation ---------------------
- - ------ --- in December. 1937
---• । forcing Clauses in their contracts
state- which bar showing of their pictures
down with President Roosevelt
in the V. B. senate over his re-.
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the surrender of Czechoslovakia. adult admissions at night.
The Soviet statement apparently arose from unverified re- |
ports in two London newspa-
pers that Lindbergh had been KNIFE IN BACK
critical of the Soviet air force.
MENTIONED IN COMMONS
< Lindbergh has made no comment |
bring that crop up
The wheat acreage Ibis fall
nevertheless, will be lowest in
would live long enough to see
them win the series. , v
The physician holds no hope
for Johnny’s recovery, neuroma,
a cancerous disease, which fol-
lows along the nerve, usually is
fatal within a few weeks.
High Court to Hear Movie Chain
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police as Stoiu Yossiphoff. The as-
sassination occurred at 3:05 p. m.
could be corrected by lifting Sat- i
. excepted because its pool extends
The 1938 rainfall to date is
39.52 inches, far ahead of the
1174 inches for the same period
in 1937. Normal precipitation
arguments for handing over parts
of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler.
The statement characterized
7 extra
14 TA-
70---
by Saturday and Sunday doting.
He called for evidence at next Saturday g monthly oil pro
ration hearing on outside oil "usurping" Texas markets and
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era, rffrtUl Ml and erasping
for more and more turiadicton,
untis the rights and privtteges
•I free trade unlons have been
Invaded, usurped and denied,"
iately after the attack I
The assassin’s name was given by
(7:05 a. m. Abilene time I.
The slayer, whose name was giv-
Typographical union. In their semi-
annual meeting here Sunday, were
hosts to the president of I T. U
known throughout the world as a
keystone of the American Federation
of Labor since its Inception, and as
one of the world’s strongest labor
organiza ttons.
Claude M. Baker I T. U. presi-
IN 'DOUBLE FEATURE' FIGHT—
two months Ago was released from
prison.
(Dispatches to Reuters And Ex-
th* distributors’
----- . tj — . boom directed toward unwar-
Rodesna assumption of great pow-
4
r
spent a restlessnight. 1 .......
'He was stricken ’by neuroma and continued to live.
SOFIA. Bulgaria, Oct 1*.—(AT) I day by a
erates a chain of more than
100 theaters.
’em remodeled, he said 1 that’s
the plastic surgeons’ hand pull-
ing the earl, and then campaign
everlastingly to make school
boards make teachers stop pull-
ing pupil’s ears Maybe it sounds
pretty screwy, but Philip him-
self is very serious abo-t it.
Mooney Review
Action Taken on
App rox i mately_300
Petitions Today
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.—
(VP)—The supreme court to-
day agreed to hear argument
in the appeal of major picture
distributors from a northern
Texas federal district court de-
cree prohibiting them from en-
forcing contractual clauses
| barring exhibition of their
films on “double feature” pro-
grams.
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td
This young chap, who calls
himself Philip Shafer of Roan-
oke. Va . has big ears That’s
the point Philip showed up in
New York the other day, ex-
plaining that his ears stand out
because his teachers used to
pull them He was going to have
had a customer or a market if the
oil could be produced without caus-
ing any excessive drop in reservoir
pressure ’ Shall *e let the store
that the clauses were
Thompson Mid Labor need, the
„ I pay that two additional days of
w production will bring them Let,
U l put these men back to work “
M Except for July and August Tex-
cipating in San Francisco,
Preparedness day bombing
Texas May Lift
Oil Shutdowns
AUSTIN. Oct 10—(UP)—Col Ernest O Thompson, chair
man of the Texas railroad commission, today bluntly notified the
oil world that Texas will not give up its oil markets to othefs.
by remaining in the sir 38 hours
and 48 minutes.
Finefrock hoped that the new
record would be accepted as official
by the National Aeronautical asso-
clation, although other pilots have
teamstera, that labor make and
keep the peace ’ It was to come on
sassin committed suicide immed-
BEFORE KILLING SELF— J .. __ -
Assassin Shoots Down Bulgarian Army Commander
* WM aescribea by this source as a changb Telegraph. British news 1 Peliee ere investizatine the
former Bulgarian army major, who agenejes. Mid the assassin turned
■ - his guns on him,elf and was taken
to a hospital serlously wounded but
larger row crop acreage.
Fine grasses in pastures, withered
in recent weeks will be revived by
the precipitation Seep springs
probably *L1 stand water now and
earthen tanks, already well sup-
Are RA IN FALL, PE &,
in the session with the Abilene I Dr terrmoeer
I group, mid Caffey ' Rilu":‘mummiait,
for the year up to October IS to
20.71 inches
Prospects for better condition*
boomed as the downpour, varying
from as prinkie to as much as two
inches, spattered over the area.
Perhaps the greatest benefit was
to ranchmen who have be faced
bem posted thia morning
Grand Jury Investigation of the
complaint will be made early next
week. Dial. Atty Ben C -Ue Chap-
Funeral dor Yancey win be held
Tesday afteroon The body to be-
ing held at Holden, funaral home.
Survivor* are ha widow end two
ww. George end John Jr, of Del-
i lea.
dition by Mercy hospital au-
thorities today.
His nurs Mid he had been
downcast yesterday after the
Cubs’ final loss at the hands of
the New York Yankees and had
CHICAGO. UC . 10— (UP-
Johnny English. 14. who to dy-
ing from cancer but whose in-
terest in the Chicago Cubs has
been one factor in keeping him
alive, was reported in "fair" con-
The reason control
WEST TEXAS’
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NEWSPAPER
Hitler that in no . ir. umsUnert ,
wouerttath ttgtrforctecho-ti
slovakia, and added that "it
man believed to be a
dent, and three of the five LT. U
delegaters to the American Federa-
tion of iaor. motored hero from
the A FL. Convention in Houston Mockmen were preparing to sell
to attend the conference It was lamb, at the low price of S and 5 1-2
across the state border
'There to a good demand for
oil," Thompsom mM "All that
to worrying anybody to price. I
his filling M,uo-
Tysingers bond was set at 810.000
after preliminary hearing before
Justice of the Peace P-ure Clift
Sunday afternoon Bond had no*
contracts at
Th# government contended
MOSCOW, Oct. 10— (AP)—Soviet Russia’s leading airmen
today solemnly denounced Col. Charles A. Lindbergh in a £—-
ment accusing him of spreading lies about Soviet air strength
to give Prime Minister Chamberlain of Britain arguments for
the National league pennant
en by one source as Vassoff, was
said to have fired IS ahots from
two revolver, at General Peeff. He
the covering ripped off the fuselage
of their plane. They had been in
the air 45 hours and 17 minutes.
This was more than eight hours
better than the official record for---—-------
planes of this class, which Finefrock , claimed times ranging up to 108
and a companion set last November I hours._____
an ong aviators, who recent-
ly took advantage of Soviet hos-
pitality toward Americana by
barging Into Moscow "without
an invitatien."
held at the Taylor county veterans cents per pound with plenty of
clubhouse Baker, the principal rain now they wil be able to hold
speaker, followed his appearance on unti the prices strike a stout
there with a radio appearance over ■ medium
CLALDE M. MAKLR
president of the Abilene Typograph-
ical union. presided.
Besides Baker ITU delegates to
the AFL convention who were pres-
ent were DiPietro E D Manning
of Minneapolls, Minn. and O L
l Mitchell of Indianapolis, Ind. pres-
ident of I T. U local No 1 mndian-
apolls to the ITU headquarter, city.
Baker , remark, bore largely upon
rTUs future policy regarding oth-
. er elements In organised labor
on the reports. It was not known
immediately whether he had ever
returned to England after hl, visit
to Moscow In August
■ His visit to Russia figured
In a guarded statement during
house of commons debate last
people" had
to live apparently had been
strengthened by their pennant
victory and hoped that he
(A Sofia dispatch to
Since July 24 ■
Downpour Nearly
Inch North Here,
Moving to South
The season’s most serious
drouth threat was cracked this
morning by a slow-falling rain
in a dozen West Texas coun-
ties.
While the amount of precipita-
tion was too low to bring complete
relief, it was of immediate value
and left hope for more as heavy
clouds threatened to break wide
open.
FAR ABOVE NORMAL HERE
By 9 o’clock this morning the
downpour in Abilene had amounted
to n inch, the first appreciable
rain since July 34 when flood wat-
ers threatened Fort Phantom Hill
dam The weatherman forecast
more rain
last April. A month ago phy-
sicians said he had only throe
weeks to live But he became
interested in the Cubs’ drive for
was badly
appointment of Donald Wake-
i field Smith to the Nation*!
Labor Relation* board.
The action came after President
William' Oreen vigorously assailed
the National Labor board, admin-
i tstratiqn of the act. insisted upon
change, in It* personnel and de-
manded a "square deal" under the
New Deats major labor agency.
REPLY DIE FDRI
TWVfimATy the ronvenuon had
gone on record unanimously de-
I manding an immediate pardon for -
Tom Moor.zy. serving a life term
' in a California prison in connec-
tion with the San Prancisco Pro
pa redness day bombing in 1919
Delegates were to give their re-
ply later in the day to President
Roosevelfs appeal and the demand
from Daniel J Tobin, head of the
which previously had been shown
as first-run attractions, In theater,
charging less than 25 cents for
Karl Hoblitzelle and R J. O’Don-
nell. head, of the two chains, in-
sisted that the distributor, insert
the prohibitions in their contracts
so that films shown as first-run
attractions in the Hoblitzelle or
ODonnell theaters would not tn the
future be shown in houses charging
less than 25 rents or as half ot
. double-feature programs.
TWASHINGTON.Oet10-IUP)-t
The supreme court today refused to
review California Mato courtde-4 -
that "Inluential
told Chancellor
2? since Mar 14 prior to that. Sun-
• » dav closing hau been in effect
u st • 3 since January 33 193* in East
2 Texas there weretwo Sunday shut-
2? 1 downs in November. 1937, and two
The high court’s action ap-
- ’ J" parently terminate, finally
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sunrise
Sun-e
n • 30 a m,
79 68
64
M T9
Fortunately thi comminalen
ha, never considered price In
proration of oil Price changes
to meet eompetiive eonditiona.
A long-bladed knife plunged
in his broad back Bam Thoma,
stood like this for 30 minute,
in Loa Angeles while he waited
for a doctor to remove the
blade a drunk, whom Thomas
had refused a dime. stabbed
him in the back as he turned
to walk away. Doctor, Mid
Thomas had an even chance to
live.
KRBC WHEAT ACREAGE CUT
'■^conference KANP. demand ^‘led^-Sof-aha X"
;h?nd‘X,^^Tr4n^
and the committee for industral planting of small grain. Thousands
organization This sentiment.doVe- or acres of land has been ready for
tailed with that of President Baker fali planting since August, but
later expressed in.nisuaddrea..2 growers have waited for rain. Some
well as that of N M DIPietro, Tar- have dusted In" the seed how-
rytown, N Y who also .poke U H ever, and the rain is sufficient to
Kreigbaum, Wichita Falls, confer-
ence president, and E L Whitaker,
Marshall Franklin and Andrew Ai- ed _____
I len fell from a plane to their death. PREFER* JOINT ACTION
on a couf course yesterday, their I submit that there is only one
ship erashing apparently because of national organtzation of worker, in
• downdraft I the United State, A committee is
Both victim, were Hobbs busi- 1 not an otganiration. The name com-
■wot and were about *5 year, mittee denote, an appointive body
TYLER, Oct. 10— (UP) —Russ
Rinefrock and w. B McCullough
brought their damaged airplane to
earth today after setting an unof-
ficial endurance record for airplanes
of less than 1,000 pounds.
They landed at 6:07-a. m., when
Charge Filed
HASKELL. Oct 10 —(Spl)-w.
H Tysinger, Haskell ruling station
operator was charged with murder
in compiaints filed Sunday after-
noon after John Yancey Sr. M-
year-old well driller was shot to
death near Tystnger» filling sta-
Uon
Yancey died almost instantly af-
ter a bullet from a 38 caliber re:
volver penetrated his cheat, just
above the heart witnesse told et.
ricers only a few words passed be-
tween the men before the shooting.
Mrs Yancey told officer, Tysinger
had threatened to kill Yancey be-
cause of his failure to pay Tyainger
an 318 debt The Yanceys lived m •
GENERAL RAIN ROUTS DROUTH UVER AREA
--------------——। ,7777 . ro -------Abilene's Fall
BLAMES HIS EARS ON TEACHERS ------------ --------"""""" C‛ "n Tn
year, in compliance with lb,
zovernment program to comtrol
•ver-peadurlton Where Tayler
county farmers have been plant-
ing approximately M.eee acrea
the qualliried allowable in 1*3*
win be only 15,000 acres, ac-
eording t« figures released from
“Just now •« Is being im-
ported Into Texas from Mexieo.
South America, Louislana and
Arkansas," Thompson said.
"This I, shipping real to New-
eastle it I, done only be-
cause these MI, have been made
more ,vailable than Texas
rude. We can correet this sit-
„dntion by making Texas erude
oil available in larger quanu:
lie* M»re oil ean be produced
from Texas oil fields without
physical waste."
We need the employment thi.
the report ,toted
L-mhe mannet and method of ad -
ministeringr ihe-net has brought I
Baptist Leader Dies
BEAUMONT, Oct. 10 (UB-Dr
Lilian Harrison Pare *0 presIdon i
>f the executive board of the Baptist
rneral convention of Texas, who
lied suddenly yesterday, wil be
juried here tomorrow.
Abilene alumni and exes”
The call was issued Saturday, in
Caffey', absence, by Karl Harri,,
vice president, and came in the
wake of the resignation of Dr
Thomas W Brabham, McMurry
president
Thi, will be the first meeting
of Abilene ex-i udents since the
spring commencement season it
was also pointed out tt)hiscussion
of a successor to Prabmm will be
the paramount topic
Ex-studenta f om other town. In
this area have been invited to Join
1916
mately 200 petations for review up-
: on which the court acted today.
MOONEY LOSES LAST PLEA
The decree, issued by the district
court in an anti-trust action
brought by the government, en-
joined the distributors from en-
suceemaful in Texas is that
have eonfin d our efforta wotelz
to Iba prevention of physiea!
waste. Market, not readily met
are driven away from Texas and
are hard to recover. Once loet
they may never be regained.
We must not lose our establish-
ed and rightful market
"The commission has always
raised allowable production any-
where and at any time anybody
A A A A r See MK»H COURT, Pg. K CbL I
McMurry Exes
oldTODiters witnessing the crash We of the International Typograph-
said the plane circled the golf1 ical union are Mill a part of that
the street take our bunsiness? course, plunged downward sudden- , national labor movement, and I
iy throwing Pilot Allen and Fran
in out of their ieata. । See TIPO MEET Pg. —> Col •
production will bring."
I the report or me resolutions com-
mittee on that part of the report
of the executive council dealing
I with the rebel Committee for In-
du, trial Org-r nation
The committee , report *n
the NLRB and II, idministra-
lion ot the Warner act wa,
filled with bristiint condemna-
ton. It accused the agency
of being "biased" toward the
C. L O. and ot seeking to des-
troy A. F. * L unions
"Ila primary consideration has
Aviation Chief Vasily Molokofr. Ten
of the group had been designated
ofncially as "heroes of the Soviet
union "
Published in the communist
party newspaper, Pravda, the
statement called Lindbergh a
"stupid liar, a lackey and a
natterer of German- fascista."
It accused Landbemh of telling. A A — • I g.
^"00^0.1^71 inspondnMeet onight
ful enough to defeat the combined 1 I--1 IVIIiym
air strength of France England. m-in. o .1 Me
the Soviet union and Czechoslova- Call for a meeting, or. *" MC
. . I Murry cohege- eX-students Ior 39"
Hix purpose, th* siatement said, night at 7130 oclock-attheWo-
L — . . .- witNten hotel vas emphasized this morn-
ini by Wiley Caffey, president of
ARrLNTE and yieinlty: Moot if eloudy to-
•«/•?BMP " first, etoud, tonignt ana
RaSt Texna Mostly eloudy, seattered
showers brobable in south portion tonight
•nd Tuenday
Highest tempersture yestetay $5
Lowest temoersture thia morning «|
■ TEMPERATURE8
u u oil fields other than Rodessa
“ I have been on a nve-day schedule
I administrative Nastice "nto dtsre-
pute the committee Miu N
i there has been oppdrtunlty such as I bouse belonging to Tysinger
Plana Crash Kills neter existed before, for the labor
rane vrasn 215 movement to grow and achieve.
Two Hobbs Mtn Achievement, have been spectacular
I but they would have been much
HOBBS N M. Oct. 10—(P- greater with teamwork," he deciar-
is a very serious thing that
when a very prominent Ameri-
can airman" wa, being lunched
by these people, “they assured
him it wa, impossible foe thi,
country to do anything" because
Germany's airforce wa, "better
than the Russian. British and
French combined.")
The Moscow statement was signed
oy it Soviet airmen, including Civil-1
I.E BOURGET, France, bet
10—(AP) — Col Charles A.
LirTSbergh, and Mrs. Lndbergh
took off in their plane from Le
Bourget airport at 2125 p m.
today 18:25 a. m Abilene ume) |
and airport officials Mid they
were bound for Berlin.__________
Lindbergh a.
Members of the North Texas .
Typographical conference, composed
of staff of the Bulgarian army, wa,
shot and killed in a Sofia »treet to- l panying the general____-__
Uhe Abilene RReporter ~2ews (
* -FrHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKECh YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IF GOES, -Byron---------------
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1938—EIGHT PAGES____________PRICE FIVE CENTS
the county agent", orttce.
In complia ro farmer, will pk**rt
more oat,, barley and rye. tM*a
1 crops not coming under the farm
• program There also will ba a
— of members of the International
_ RLACKIE’S hind legs are I
A S paralyzed—he waa hit ■
L by an auto—but ha gala
E. places just the same. Hl*
E owner. Russell Stevens, of
K Danville. Ill., adapted a lit-
R te red cart to put Blackie’s
• 'tonneau' on wheel* and it
b didn't take thd pup long
L to learn how to get around
F with only his front legs for
L motive power.
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