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ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1939—FOURTEEN PAGES
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Ballinger, Cross
Plains Get Rains
With skies heavily overcast
sprinkle of rain began falling
in Abilene early this afternoon
after rain clouds had dumped
generous volumes of water in
much of southern and central
Taylor county during the
morning.
Tuscola reported half an inch fell
this morning and at 1 p. m. a stiff
shower was sweeping the Cedar Gap
community north
of there. Both
Bradshaw and Ovalo
got sizable
showers while Buffalo Gap merely
had the dust settled.
Heaviest downpours in this reg-
ion occurred in Runnels county
where both Winters and Ballinger
reported 3 inches. Miles had an
inch and a half, Robert Lee 1.13,
Rowena 3.5 and Blackwell 2 inches.
Only a trace of moisture had been
registered in Abilene early this
afternoon.
Cross Plains gauged two inches.
Southward Novice and Burkett in
Coleman county received three in-
ches, Coleman .76 inch and Brown-
wood heavy showers.
Brisk forenoon showers gave
Colorado City .61 inch, and the
fall was estimated at about three-
quarters inch at the Renderbrook
ranch, 30 miles to the south. Half
an inch fell tn the Buford com-
munity north of Colorado City. It
was Mitchell county’s first general
rain in several weeks and it fell on
baking feed crops and ranges.
NORTHWEST SOAKED
Rains ranging up to nearly three
inches were reported over much of
Texas, but the heaviest falls, gen-
erally beneficial to crops, drenched
the northwest quarter.
The Wichita Falls territory gen-
erally received from half an inch
to two inches, in time to save cot-
ton. Most feed, however, already
had been ruined.
Lightning set fire to a 55,000 bar-
rel crude oil tank of the Continental
Pipe Line company two miles north
of Wichita Falls.
Ellis county, annually a heavy
producer of cotton, reported rains
ranging to an inch.
Showers fell over most of the
Plains area The precipitation m
and near Lubbock varied up to 1.45
inches.
Vernon reported 2 87 inches, and
Clarendon 124 inches. Other re-
ports of precipitation came from
such representative cities as Gaines-
ville, Quanah, Electra, Childress,
Greenville, Uvalde, Del Rio, El Paso
Luling, Mexia, San Marcos, Waco.
Swamp Project
Will Get Airing
ELECTROCUTED MEETING IN SECRET SESSION-
Board Sets Maximum State Tax Rate
Britain May
Order Fleet
To Far East
JACKIE JENSEN
Lad s Funeral
Set at Ranger
Funeral for eight-year-old Jack-
ie Jensen, electrocuted while play-
ing on the roof of his home at
1941 North Second street yesterday,
will be held at 4 o'clock Saturday
afternoon at the Methodist church
in Ranger, former family home.
Service will be conducted by the
Rev. Q. Alfred Brown, pastor of the
Ranger Methodist church, assisted
by the Rev. H. B Johnson. First
Christian church pastor, and the
Rev. Charles T. Talley, First Bap-
tist pastor of Ranger.
LONDON, Aug. 4.—(AP)-
Parliament adjourned today
for a two-month vacation after
hearing Prime Minister Cham-
berlain warn Japan Great Brit-
ain might find it necessary “in
certain circumstances" to send
a fleet to the Far East.
BLUNT DECLARATION
The prime minister, in one of the
bluntest declarations he has made
on British-Japanese difficulties, said
he hoped no one would think "it
absolutely out of the question for
such circumstances to arise ”
"I do not say that as a threat,”
he added, "but only as a warning."
PARIS, Aug. 4—(API—France
stepped into the British-Jap-
anese negotiations for settlement
of China issues with a notice to
Tokyo today that French Inter-
ests were “linked” with those of
Britain. 7
Chamberlain's speech was made
against the background of the news
from Italy that Japan's closer ad-
herence to the Rome-Berlin axis
ARMY DISPLAYS POTENT WEAPON IN AIR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
One of the most potent air
weapons possessed by the U. S.
army air corps are its "flying
fortresses," four of which are
shown here in a demonstration
attack flight over Dayton as part
of the celebration of the 30th
I anniversary of the government s
purchasing the first military
plane. The plane was bought
from the Wright brothers, who
5
I perfected it in Dayton These
huge four-motored, ships are
capable of carrying heavy loads
at terrific speeds. (Ap Telemat)
was under discussion by the Jap- INT TDIGIPNIMENT DRIVE
anese ambassadors to the axis pow- IN ADJ O U MLN 1 DIL V L--
ers.
Chamberlain indicated Britain
would have taken a much firmer
stand against Japan from the start
if it had not been for the critical
Efforts to revive the child, son | European satuation.
, „ . , Speaking In foreign affairs debate
of Mrs Annie Laura Jensen, were in the house of commons. Chamber-
unavailing after three hours of ar- lain said:
tificial respiration and the admin-
istration of heart stimulants and
oxygen.
With two playmates. Dalhart
Hughes, 12. and Billy Gene Elli-
son, 11, Jackie had climbed to the
roof to gather grapes from an
overhanging vine. Seeking to reach
Chinaberries in a tall tree, he slid
down the side of the roof.
One wrist touched the uninsu-
lated wire of an electric service line
where it entered the house. Jackie
screamed
Dalhart jumped off the house
and ran for Jackie's brother. Carl
Jensen, 17. who brought a wood-
en hammer handle to dislodge the
“Sometimes I hear members
say, ‘Why don't you do the same
as the United States does.’ It
is hardly necessary for me to
point to the fundamental differ-
ence between the United States
and its isolation from Europe
and this country.
"Even in the presence of those in-
suits and injuries which have been
Increase Due
To Aggregate
Nine Millions
Senate Passes Farm-Price Fund
-----:---------------—I i --------
DANZIGERS PREPARE TO OPEN Deficiency Bill Hot Foot' No
PONTOON BRIDGE TO PRUSSIA Total Tripled
AUSTIN, Aug. 4.—(AP)—
Meeting in secret session, the
automatic tax board today set
the 1939 state ad valorem tax
rate at 77 cents on the $100
valuation, the constitutional
maximum and 28 cents higher
than last year’s rate.
NEWSMEN BARRED
The increase, based on an esti-
mated valuation of $3,520,118,076,
would aggregate $9,856,331. The tax
has been as high in only three pre-
vious years, 1925, 1933 and 1934.
Governor W Lee O’Daniel, chair-
man of the board, barred newspa-
permen from the session. Veteran
observers said it was the first time
in their memory that the tax rate
had been set behind closed doors.
Other members of the board are
Comptroller George H. Sheppard
ard Treasurer Charley Lockhart.
The rate, effective on taxes to
be paid between Oct. 1 and Feb. 1,
will be 35 cents each for the gen-
eral and school funds and 7 cents
for Confederate pensions A large
deficit in the school fund necessi-
tated an increase in the school rate
from 7 to 35 cents. The general
and Confederate pension rates had
been at their maxima for several
years.
Robert S Calvert, statistician for
the comptrollers department, esti-
mated that notwithstanding the
maximum tax rate and appropria-
tions vetoes by O’Daniel the deficit
in the general fund would rise to
$25,832,657 by Aug 31. 1940. He said
the school fund deficit would be
cut during the coming fiscal year
from $4,700,000 to $1,069,259.
VOTE UNANIMOUS
The vote to boost the rate to its
maximum was unanimous. Gover-
| nor W Lee O’Daniel, who favors
abolition of the state property tax,
said in a prepared statement that
the board had no other recourse.
The governor asserted that if the
automatic tax board had set a
higher rate last year there would
not now be a deficit in the school
fund but since the deficit existed
“it is a legal debt against the avail-
able school fund and it is the re-
Joke; Burns
Cause Death
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. —
(AP)—A $119,599,918 appro-
priation to continue govern-
ment loans for bolstering farm
prices was approved quickly
by the senate today as it sped
(The Polish press today discussed the possibility Danzig nazis were consideration of the session's
last major piece of legislation
in hopes of a week-end ad
FREE CITY OF DANZIG, Aug 4— P)— Danzig authorities announced
today a pontoon bridge which would provide the only bridge connection
over the Vistula river between the free city of Danzig and German East
Prussia was completed and ready for installation.
inflicted upon British people in Announcement of the new bridge follows a threat on Tuesday by
China by the Japanese we must re- | Danzig nazi leaders to ignore the established frontiers after a revival of
member there are limits to what the "herring and margarine war" between Poland and Danzig,
we can do at this time to help our |
people there preparing forcibly to open the frontier Mtween the free city and East
--------------———-------Prussia—a step in the direction of
incorporation of Danzig in the
“At the present moment we have
not got in the Far East a fleet su-
perior to that of the Japanese We
have such a fleet here. In certain
•Childs wrist from the wire Uneon- | circumstar, es we might find it
childs wrist from the wire, Uneon I necessary to send „ fleet out there;
| scious, he was handed down to Ross
| Jones and R B. Belyeau, who had
I arrived at the scene.
Jackie was born May 20, 1931.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug 4.—(P)—O
John Rogge, assistant United States
attorney general in charge of the
federal investigation into Louisi-
ana s political scandal, today ad-
vised District Attorney Harvey G
Field’s data on alleged diversion of
450 truckloads of WPA material to
private use near New Orleans.
Fields advised Rogge yesterday
b telegram that pictures, drawings
and letters pertaining to this charge
had been forwarded to the latter
in Los Angeles. His father died
there Feb 23. 1934. and about
three and a half years ago Mrs
Jensen and her two young sons
moved to Abilene They had lived
LC Interest
journment.
, reich.)
The bridge has not yet been put VOTE 60 TO 7
in place and authorities said they
This sum was the principal item
(Britain normally maintains nAT: |
Far Eastern waters only her China Dato | rimman
squadron, which includes no capital KOIC I
ships and woifld be no match for * *
the Japanese navy, the world’s third .
strongest T WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 — ( —
(The China squadron, commanded -John F Fahey, chairman of the
by Admiral Sir Percy Noble, includes Federal Home Loan bank board, an-
were not certain when it would be in approximately $135,000,000 of in-
anchored. crease recommended by the senate
three 10,000-ton cruisers, one 9.100- nounced today a reduction in Home
at their present address only a ton cruiser, one aircraft carrier, one owner. Loan corporation interest
destroyer flotilla of eight ships, 15 Owners Loan corporation interest
submarines, about 25 river gunboats rates from 5 to 4 1-2 percent.
and escort vessels and half a dozen Fahey said the cut was estimated
station and mother ships. | to save borrowers from the corpora-
----------------------------——--| tion $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 a year.
month.
V V. Cooper, Eastland landown-
er and the child’s grandfather. Mrs
Jensen’s brother. V V. Cooper Jr.
and a sister. Mrs Harry Cross and
Mr Cross arrived here last night
fom Ranger Kiker-Knight was in
chage of local funeral arrange-
ments.
and that "all charges" had been MI DI ,
turned over to federal investigators. New Plant Disease
operating in North Louisiana, M. * * WHY
Seven operators and nine tax-
payers were involved in the charges,
the district attorney for the west-
ern district of Louisiana advised
Rogge
Appears in State
NEW YORK Aug 4 (P) — A new
plant disease tor the United States,
a sort of vegetable spider, was an-
Fields charged more than 8,000
yards of material had been taken ...... ... ... ...
Into a swamp section for Improve- I tanical journal Phytopathology
ment of property formerly "of no
value" for the benefit of residents
nounced today in the scientific bo-
of the area.
A small hard spot appears on a
plant and from it radiates in fan-
shape a network of whitish threads.
PHILADELPHIA Aug. 4—(P)
A “hot foot’ Carl Allens
friends gave him was no joke.
Because of it he died.
The 27-year-old jobless steve-
dore fell asleep while in his
room with three friends last
month. They poured a cleaning
fluid on the sole of his shoe and
touched a match to it. Allen’s
sponsibility of the automatic* tax
board to fix a rate at this time
pants caught fire and the burns that will pay the deficit, or as
later became infected, much of it as our limitations will
He died last night.
much of it as our limitations will
Scores The reduction will apply to all
scores injured in • borrowers who meet their obliga-
London Explosion tions in accord with their contracts,
LONDON, Aug. +() Scores or It is to become effective as soon as
| persons suffered minor injuries to- the necessary detailed arrangements
day when a gas explosion tore can be completed throughout the
through the root of a building near country..
St Pauls cathedral and broke sev- : The cut followed reduction last
eral stained-glass windows in the 1 Monday of one-half of one percent
I famous church on mortgages insured by the Fed-
eral Housing administration on small
homes. The FHA cut, effective last
Police said a gas leakage was not-
iced #n an excavation adjacent to '
the damaged building and the ex-
plosion occurred while the leak was
being traced.
| It was Londons worst explosion
since bombing of King's Cross sta-
tion July 25 in which one person
was killed and 15 injured
Tuesday, scaled the rate down to
4 1-2 percent.
It will be entirely on free state i appropria tions committee for inclu-
territory and connect Kaesemark. sion in the $54,000,000 third defi-
on the west side of the river, and ciency bill passed by the house yes-
Rotebude, on the east, terday.
The completed bridge is now at a The sppr theipprPl:
Danzig dock awaiting installation the, gommndity Credit
(Treaty provisions place the free court m " combietes action
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herring trade would cost Danzig of the increases and other amend-Phantom Hill
valuable business ments which might be written in. spillway improvement and filtration
(The Danziger Vorposten then On the speed with which the house plant will begin -the middle or last
declared if such disturbances of acts largely depends the success ” of next week
trade continued, the free state will leadership plans for adjournment city Engineer R C Hoppe today
direct its trade to the German mar- tomorrow night at the latest, received from Works Progress ad-
ket without regard for the former 1 Senator Adams (D-Coio), acting | ministration headquarters a work
customs frontier now broken by chairman of the appropriations order for the flrat unit of the $471,-
Poland > group, hurried the final piece of 331 project.
major legislation to the senate He said work would begin as soon
chamber from the committee room as the men could be assigned by the
and obtained immediate considera- employment division of the WPA
Uon even before senators knew just district office in San Angelo, which
how much the bill contained. must make the assignments since
, . close of an Abilene area office last
| In it, however, was most of the month
$160,000,000 cut out by an economy | Hoppe estimated aBSut 100 men
bloc in the house. • Senators were would be employed at the atart.
hopeful restoration of this would Their jobs will be on spillway im-
not cause a deadlock which would provements and sodding
Pipeline Work
To Start Soon
Work on the city of Abilene’s Fort
allow "
Calvert estimated the general
See TAX RATE, Pg. 13, Cel 1
Taylor's Taxes
Up 21 Percent
TAYLORS TAXES
Todays 28-cent boost in the state
ad valorem tax rate will increase
reservoir pipeline Taylor county taxes by about 21
reservoir pipeline, percent under a tentative budget
filed last week with Co. Clerk Vivi-
Sender of Hoax
Ship Distress
Calls Hunted
Texan Indicted in
Killings on Ship
PROVIDENCE, R I. Aug. 4—(P)
— Bes Swann, 42, Gladewater, Texas,
faced arraignment in court today
on three indictments, two charging
murder and the third assault with
Intent to murder. In connection with
the hammer -slay Ing of two ship-
mates aboard the tanker Dungan-
non July 23
Swann was indicted yesterday.
Conviction carries the death penalty
or life imprisonment.
The Weather
They spread over the surfac e of
leaves, stems, flowers arid fruits, un- |
til all are tied together in a web or independent store
mat.
A new name.web blight of beans. |
is suggested for the disease because
is most destructive to that crop.
The report is made by George F.
Weber, of the Florida agricultural
experiment station at Gainesville
The spider disease first was report-
ed in a Florida bean field in 1932.
Since then the same spidery growths
have been found on other plants
in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama.
Sales Up in June
DALLAS Aug 4.—(P)— Dollar
sales of independent retail stores,
based upon reports from 1,215 firms
in Texas, were 8 per cent higher in
June of this year than during the
samel month in 1938, according to
an announcement made by William
L. Austin, director of the bureau
of census.
Month-Old Deadlock Broken on
.„*,!"-'": .■.TU"""’ Partly eoudy Social Security I aw Devicion
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ably scattered showers in Rio Grande Val-
ley. 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 — Pt A vided a formula for reduction of
East Texas (east of 100th meridian):
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday
Highest temperature yesterday 96
Lowest temperature this morning 75
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senate-house .conference committee
broke a month-long deadlock over
state payroll taxes where unemploy-
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CLOUDY ' sunuer
6:30 p.m 6:30 a.m. 12.30
Dry thermometer 89 75
Wet thermometer 72 72
Relative humidity 44 86
amending the social security law
today, reaching complete agreement
on changes to extend the act's bene-
fits and save taxpayers about $905,-
000,000 in the next three years
The impasse ended when senate
conferees agreed to discard the so-
called Connally amendment which
would have required the federal
government to provide increased
aid to states for old age pension
payments.
House conferees agreed to accept
all other senate amendments which
i p.m. had been in disagreement and drop-
* ped the house-approved McCormack
so amendment which would have pro-
ment compensa tion reserves
adequate.
Chairman Doughton (D-NC)
were
of
Texan's Home in
Chungking Blasted
CHUNGKING Aug 4.-P—The
French and German consulates
were damaged early today as Japa-
nese warplanes raided the city.
MIAMI, Fla Aug
| eral radio officials pursued their
quest today for the perpetrator of
an apparent hoax that caused a
day-long search by the coast guard
4.—(P)—Fed- delay adjournment. | Meanwhile, the city is to let con-
In calling up the bill in the sen- tract for actual construction of the
ate, Adams announced the commit- pipeline and complete negotiations
tee sought consideration at once in for right-of-way.
an Fryar
Last year the state levy was 40
cents, the county rate 65 cents, and
a five-cent levy was included for
that portion of the county in a spe-
cial Cross Plains road district—the
total 11 19.
With a three-cent county rate re-
duction proposed, the next fiscal
year’s rate would be the 77 costs
plus 62 cents plus the five cents to
retire Cross Plains highway bonds
—the total $1.44.
The net increase in the county
rate is 25 cents.
Valuations in the county for last
year were $19,256,000, with approxi-
mately 25 percent escaping taxation
under homestead exemptions.
and three private vessels for a
phantom burning ship.
Ten Chinese were killed in the
foreign area. They had left the
Arthur S Fish of the federal
communications commission office
here said invesUgators were sifting
clues indicating the distress mes-
sages which were sounded for sev-
strictly Chinese quarter of the city ,
| for supposed safety under the
swastika, and tricolor. _ eraj hours early yesterday might
The United States embassy was
not harmed, but the residence of
F. Tillman Durdin of Fort Worth.
Tex. a correspondent of the New
York Times, was ruined by bomb
have come from a land radio sta-
tion in the Tampa area
Senders of spurious SOS signals
concussion.
are liable under federal law to a
$10,000 fine and three years impris-
Sheriff’s Widow
Named Successor
onment.
For several hours commercial
and coast guard radio communi-
| ration along the Atlantic seaboard
was tied up as an evidently in-
RUSK. Aug 4.—PHCherokee
county had a woman sheriff today
Mrs Bill Brunt, 26-year-old wid-
of the sheriff who was shot to
death in a pistol battle yesterday,
was named his successor and took _
experienced operator sent dramatic
and fantastic messages purporting
to come from the British oil tank-
er Dunkwa. Lloyd’s of London later
reported the. Dunkwa was safe at
Rolterdam
%
order to expedite plans for adjourn- p
ment tomorrow night despite the Accord Reached
fact there were no printed copies
of the amended bill. in ume otrike
Senator Austin of Vermont, act- DETROIT Aug 4.—P—Terms
ing republican leader, said repub- for ending the month-old walkout
STOP and THINK
See CONGRESS, Pr. 13, Col. 8
CCC to Establish
Fort Griffin Camp
of General Motors skilled workers
were agreed upon early today, sub-
- | ject to ratification by union offi-
cials and the strikers themselves
If the proposals—which were not
announced officially—are approved.
It was considered likely work on
1*40 automobiles, which has been
delayed by the strike, could begin
soon.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4-(PH Ci----
vilian Conservation corps officials Road Reopened
today notified Rep Garrett (D-Tex) A909 APPE59
they would establish a CCC camp REDLANDS, Calif; Aug 4.—VP)—
Oct. 1 at Fort Griffin, near Alban Road- crews restored one-way traf-
Shackelford county. fie today from Redlands and San
The enrollees Garrett said, would Bernardino to the Barton flats
restore the historic old Indian fort area, where 500 children were ma-
which was established in 1867 and I rooned in mountain camps by a
abandoned in 1881 near-cloudburst.
Item—“No system of thought
has ever been able to devise a
straight jacket for human free-
dom."— The Rev. Charles Lyon
Seasholes, before Baptist con-
vention.
The Spirit of the Lord
God as upon me. because
the Lord hath appointed
me to preach good tidings,
unto the meek; he hath
sent me to hind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and 1
the opening of the prison
to them that are bound-:
Isaiah 61:1.
the house ways and means com-
mittee announced the compromise
legislation would be- brought to the
house floor as soon as a formal re-
port could be written, possibly with-
in two hours. Members predicted
it would win speedy approval.
Signs of intense feeling among |
the conferees were noticeable par-
ticularly when SenatorConnally
(D-Tex) left the meeting some time
in advansce of the others and re-
fused to answer questions.
Connally aid Senator, Harrison
(D-Miss) both declined to sign the
conference report.
the oath of office immediately.
The former Miss Mary Dear of
Crockett, she and her husband had |
observed their third wedding an- |
niversary only Wednesday.
Plane to Big Spring
SAN ANTONIO Aug 4—P—A
plane left Stinson field here this
morning, enroute to Big Spring, to
return Deputy Sheriff H L Fergu-
son, seriously injured in an auto-
mobile accident near there last
Sunday, while bringing two prison-
era to San Antonio with another
deputy sheriff.
Impoverished in German Grab of Homeland—
CZECH MOTHER AND SONS LEAP TO DEATH FROM HOTEL ROOM
CHICAGO. Aug. 4.—PA mid-
die-aged mother and her two young
sons- members of a wealthy Czech-
uslovakian family whose fortune
disappeared in the nazi absorption
of their homeland - plunged to
d th last nigat from the 13th floor
of The Congre s hotel
The three bodies struck almost/
I simultaneously on the sidewalk of
I M' higan averrue. > ,
A taxi driver shouted in horror
and a park policeman. William Go-
noude, standing some 200 feet away,
cane running. The woman was
derd when he arrived He thought
the little boys might at ill be alive
and rushed their broken bodies
clad in sun suits, to a hospital but
they, too, were dead
She was Mrs Karl Langer 43.
and the boys were her sons, Karl
Tommy, 1. and Jan Michael. 4. The
husband and father a 46-year-old
former textile manufacturer in
Prague, Crecho-Slovakia. was found
in the basement apartment home
on the west side
Mrs. Hermine Weil, a relative,
Stunned by the tragedy, his un-
familiarity with the English lan-
guage adding to his anguish, Lan-
ger was taken ot central police sta-
tion by sympathetic officers. He
clutched bis throat as he gave a
statement, with the aid of an in-
terpreter and friends
Then the police placed him in a
cell because, they said, they feared
said the Langers were Jewish. ,
Mrs Langers left wrist was
slashed and a blood -stained razor---—----v
blade was found in the hotel room ( he might harm himself.
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