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INCOME LEVY
. RECOMMENDED
BY ECONOMIST
Tells House Sales Tax Will
Lessen Buying
Power
By ROSCOE FLEMING
Press Staff Correspondent
AUSTIN, Feb. 16.—To enact •
•ales tax in Texas will be to pro-
ong the depression so far as Tex-
as is concerned, and make it more
serious.
To enact an income tax would
be to shorten the depression.
This was the view offered last
tight by N. H. Montgomery, pro-
Lessor of economics at the Univer-
sity of Texas, to the House com-
nittee on revenue and taxation.
The committee held the, third
of four public heartngs on its four
sales tax bills. Rep. Sarah Hugher*
if Dallas la the author of an in-
tome tax bill which haa so far
been given scant consideration.
Has Caused Depression.
Professor Montgomery, who re-
reived more applause than sny
witness who hss yet appeared be-
ore the committee, ssid that a
ales tax would dry up consumer's
neome, badly needed to set the
wheels of business and Industry
roing,
F It was the progressive lessening
if this income—whst the ordinary
man spends for food and clothing
>nd autos and necessities of life
-that hss caused and prolonged
he depression, he said.
On the other hsnd, he said, the
neome tax would fall heaviest on
he kind of income which la not
seeded now—the surplus income
which is invested and therefore
toes back into the creation of new
facilities.
I "The man with $1,000 a year
must spend sli his income to keep
jis family going," he said.
Lessons Buying Power.
1 “The man with 810,000 a year
las a surplus which he must
Hoard or Invest, if he invests it.
Igoes into new factories, new
reduction, which the country
annot use. In fact, we are starv-
1g now in the shadow of silent
uctorles.
F "A seles tax would hit the for-
ter kind of income. If it raises
24 000 s year, as some wit-
esses have suggested. It lessons
y just that much the buying pow-
r which Texas so sorely needs.
I "An income tax would hit the
ther kind of income. It would
ivert It from productive enter-
rise, which we do not now need,
nd would plow it right back into
he buying of consumption goods.
t"This is no plea to 'soak the
ich,’ or ‘protect the poor.' The
Ilestion has a social side, but I
m talking only of the cold eco-
omics of it. I am trying to de-
ne what would be good for
W. Lee O'Daniel, president of
he Fort Worth Chamber of
ommerce, opposing the sales tax,
nd particularly the repeating
ix, was catechised by Luther
lickels, who drafted the admin-
tration bill.
AS DEATH CULT WENT TO COURT
IKLAHOMA OIL
PROBATION LAW
IS THREATENED
Oklahoma City Field To
Meet in Attempt To
Prevent “Chaos”
• NEA
In a trance and gibbering
"The Tongue," John H. Mills is
shown here as lie was carried to
court at Inez, Ky., for arraign-
ment with eight of his follow-
ers in the death cult sacrifice
killing of his aged mother. The
rope carried by one of the
deputies was used to tie Mills to
a rhair In the courtroom. Hun-
dreds of mountain people trek-
ked to Inez to attend the hear-
ing.
JAIL FIVE IN ROBBERY TRIAL
BANDIT PROBE DATE MARCH
By United Press. ,
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 16.-
An Oklahoma Supreme Court opin-
ion has made it mandatory that
the state's oil curb laws be either
repealed outright or greatly
strengthened by the legislature
Immediately, Chairman Paul Wal-
ker of the Corporation Commission
said today.
"Personally, I wish the legisla-
ture would take proration away
from the commission and give It
to some other body," Walker said.
“It is an unsatisfactory law and
interferes with the work of util-
ity regulation."_______
The Supreme Court's ruling late
yesterday in the Wilcox Oil & Gas
Cu. tase, knocked out present
methods of administering the oil
curb. Walker said it left no one
arm of government able to carry
out the intent of the state conser-
vation law of 1915.
Plan Started.
Negotiations among Oklahoma
City field operators will be start-
ed at a general Corporation Com-
mission hearing tomorrow "to save
the situation and prevent chaos in
the city oil field" as a result of
the supreme court's ruling, Wal-
ker announced.
"Something must be worked out
immediately aa a atop gap until
new legislation can be worked
out,” Walker said.
At staunch oil conservationist,
Chairman Walker declared that
“it anything is accomplished, the
Wounded Hand Leads To
Arrest of Four Men
And Woman
Grapevine Bank Case And
Others Posted By
Court Office
legislature must enact a law put-
ting the power in one place with-
out divided responsibility."
Activeness in oil matters
In
Four men and a woman were
being held as bandit suspects to-
day after a bandaged hand of one
of the men aroused the suspicions
of a patrolman.
An investigation revealed the
man had been shot In the hand.
After telling police he acci-
dentally injured the hand while
cleaning his pistol recently, a
check-up disclosed the wound had
been dressed at a local hospital
at 1:45 a. m. today.
Three men were arrested by
Patrolman G. T. Barbee st Fourth
snd Main Another man and
woman, companions, were taken
at a hotel in the 1600
Main Street,
the wounded
The woman
block
said
Joe Les Stewart and
Odell
Chambless, charged with robbery
of the Grapevine Home Bank,
will go to trial in Criminal Dis-
trict Court March 1.
The bank robbery cases - were
on a list of court settings posted
today by the district attorney’s
office.
The youthful bandits also face
indictments of car theft. A third
Oklahoma centered along two
fronts today. The Senate oil In-
vestigation resumes its inquiry in-
to illicit oil traffic, recalling heads
of two of the largest operators in
the Oklahoma City field, the Phil-
lips Peroleum, Company and Indian
Territory Illuminating Oil Com-
pany,
Houses Are Ready.
Both houses of the legislature
were scheduled to receive the new
proration bill, imposing drastic
penitentiary sentences and fines
for infractions.
While the court was rendering
its decision in the Wilcox case,
suspect In the bank robbery, F.
L. Whitesides, is charged with the corporation commission was In
conspiracy. conference approving a plan of
Stewart was captured by s Commissioner J. C. Walton per-
posse shortly after the robbery, mitting law-abiding operators in
Chambless surrendered at Pampa
man and another
' had quarreled.
Dallas police took two of the
men to Dallas for questioning in
connection with recent hold-ups
there.,
When he learned officers were on
his trail for the slaying of Dep-
uty Sheriff Malcolm Davis.
Raymond Hamilton and Jodie
T. Lloyd also are slated for trial
on March 1. The former facea
two indictments for theft and
■the latter, known as the North
the Oklahoma City field to “make
up" for millions of barrels of "hot
oil" run by other producers.
The system of proration admin-
istration virtually was wiped out
by the new Wilcox decision, a clar-
ification of the court's December
ruling.
Side "limping bandit,” is charged ■
with five holdups. ROTARY CHIEF WILL
Six slot machine robbery eases
Nickels challenged O’Daniel’s
instruction that a three per cent
x amounts to really s nine per
nt tax on the article. R. H.
ontgomery of the University of
oxas opposed a sales tax and
Ivocated an income tax.
MOTHER OF FORMER
BALL PLAYER DEAD
Mrs. Blanche Dumont Dies At Age
of 92
Mrs. Blanche Dumont, 92.
are set for Feb. 27. The defend-
ants are Clifford Prather, C. C.
Irving, H. L. Hancock, Jack
Lewis, George Waggoner and Ed
Winters.
Oscar Lee Polk will go to trial
March 2 on a slot machine rob-
bery charge.
mother of the late Wilson Mat-
QUATIC STARS HERE thews, one-time player, manager
and umpire in the Texas League,
HONOR LOCAL YOUTHS
Mae West Won't Don Pants YOUTH ADMITS
Even If Congress Orders It KNIFE SLAYING
Even If Congress Orders It
Says Women Lose Animal
Personality When Clad
In Trousers
By H. ALLEN SMITH
United Press Correspondent.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18__Mae
West, the blond Diamond Lil of
the stage and screen, sat in vo-
luptioua attire in her Broadway
dressing room and swore an oath
that no one, not even Congress,
will ever succeed in getting her
to wear pants.
"It’s utterly ridiculous!" she
shouted. "What do they think
legs are for? And to think, the
women of this country were just
abort to regain their senses!
Pants, my eye!"
Miss West contends that when
women begin wearing masculine
garb, they destroy what she calls
their “animal personality."______
“I'll tell you what," she said,
“If the women of this country
take up this pants idea seriously,'
I hope the men start going
around in trailing gowns snd
step-ins. I hope they even try
to develop feminine figures, and
then the world will all go to hell.
"What do they want to do?
Turn this country into another
China? Don't they know that
over in China the women wear
the pants and the men wear
kimonas? Well, let 'em go! Let
'em eat rice, if they like it. But
the day they put britches on Mae
West you might as well get ready
to see Chief Justice Hughes walk
on his hands from the Battery to
the Bronx."
MMBi WE I|I'I/MBF.4EL.W
Mae West.
Ing panta. Where would It all
be? Down the mail chute! Over
the hill to the poor farm! Down
the hatch! 1 tell you, I don't
even wear pajamas!"
Miss West said that no man
she has ever known and liked
Miss West, thoroly stirred up
by this time, approached the sub- . .
ject from an esthetic viewpoint. f
In other words, she stood up. She
was wearing a slinky, close-fit-
ting robe of deep red.
“Now look," she suggested.
"You see this? And this? Then
this? Now suppose I was wear-
6
PTA NOTES
Garner Gives Up
Wil! Wear Top Hat at
nr DI 1VU1TE Inauguration Next
OF FLATMATE Month
i By United Press.
I WASHINGTON, Feb.16.-
Speaker Garner said today he
thought the inauguration cere-
monies next month were “mostly
poppycock" but that he would
surrender to convention and wear
Victim Permitted Himself To
Be Bound and Gagged
Thru Ruse
By United Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—A sixth-
grade school boy confessed today
he plunged a knife thru the heart
of a playmate after binding and
gagging him, police announced.
Police believed the slain boy,
William Bender, 12. might have
been killed in a vengeance. He
permitted himself to be bound and
gagged thru a ruse, according to
a third youth who said he wit-
nessed the slaying.
Harry Murch, 15, held as the
slayer, threatened William, police
learned, because he ssid Murch
"hit a woman over the head with
a monkey wrench.”
' John Miller, 10, told police he
went with William and Harry to
a vacant house January 31. Har-
ry said he intended to rob a pea-
nut vendor and offered to demon-
strate how he would tie his vic-
tim. William volunteered.
Harry tied and gagged William
and while he was on his back
plunged s kitchen paring knife
into his heart, John told police.
William was bound with a
skipping rope which belonged to
John's sister, Grace.
a top hat.
Garner, discussing the cere-
monlee at which he will become
vice-president, wss unable to re-
call the name of Mrs. Dolly Gann,
sister and hostess of Vice-presi-
dent Curtis, famous on three con-
tinents for her social wars in the
capital.
"We'll all go to the White
House," he said. "President
Roosevelt and Mra. Roosevelt and
President Hoover snd Mrs. Hoo-
ver snd Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Cur-
“Oh no," he corrected himself.
“Not. Mrs. Curtis but Mrs. 'Can*
—no, no, no, I mean Mrs. Gann.”
MEMORIAL SERVICES
PLANNED BY W.C.T.U.
would go for a girl in trousers.
"You see," she explained,
"when a girl puts on men's
clothes, there's something that
disappears. You might call it the
. . . the uhh!" This word “uhh!”
is a very difficult word to put
into writing, they way Miss West
delivers it.
"And when," she concluded;
"when the 'uhh!” If gone, what
have you left? Soapsuds! No
I more,'
•---------------------------
The William James P. T. A.
will meet at 3:15 p. m‘ Friday in '
the school auditorium. The meet-
Ing was postponed from last week
because of bad weather.
*. * .
The Child Study Group of the
Alice E. Carlson School will meet
at 3 p. m. Friday at the home of
Mrs. A. B. Greene, 2705 Wabash.
The Lily B. Clayton Pre-School
Association will meet at 10 a. m.
Friday at the home of Mrs. Porter
McAfee, 2229 West Magnolia.
Mrs. L. M. Hogsett will be the
chief speaker.
GANG KIDNAPS BANK
FACES ARSON CHARGE
Gasoline Drums Reported Found
in Attic After Fire
The owner of a Lipscomb Street
house was in county jail today,
facing arson charges, after elty
investigators said they found gas-
oline drums in the attic of the
damaged dwelling. The man was
trailed to Dallas and arrested.
Neighbors said they saw the
Miss Frances Willard’s Memory
to Be Honored
Memorial services for Miss
Frances Willard, W.C.T.U. found-
or, will be held at 2 p. m. Fri-
day by the Central Lelia B. Am-
merman W.C.T.U. in the parlors
of the First Methodist Church.
A program will be given by
Mrs. T. E. Coppage, Mrs. fl H.
Jenkins, Mrs. F. H. Jones, Mrs.
S. W. Hutton, Mrs. A. M. Smis-
son snd' Mrs. Jesse, Garrett. Hos-
tesses will be Mrs. E. B. Lewis,
Mrs. D. E. Cox and Mrs. J. J."
Owens. The meeting was post-
poned from last week because of
bed weather.
CASHIER, GET $25,000 owner leave the house in the900
block Lipscomb a few minutes be-
fore fire broke out at 4:30 p. m.
yesterday.
These Two Things
Stop Stomach Gas
Keep Guard Over Family During
Robbery
AMBLER, Pa., Feb. 16.—A
bandit gang kidnaped Samuel R.
Horst,-cashier of the First Na-
tional Bank of Ambler, from his |
home early today, forced him to
admit them to the bank and,
when the time vault opened,
escaped with between $25,000
and 830,000.
Take a tablespoonful of Dare’s
Mentha Pepsin before you eat,
and lie down flat after your meals
When Mr. Horst and other _______
members of his family returned [if you want to end the torture of
to their home early today from gas, heartburn, fullness, and oth-
a party, they found several j er stomach discomfort. Money
bandits in the house. | back any time it fails, says Leon-
White two of them bound and ard Bros. Dept. Store, Drug
gagged him another kept guard Dept.: Everybody’s Dept. Store,
over his wife and daughter. Drug Dept.—Advertisement.
Knock Out
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A cold is an internal infection,
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Lt stops a cold quickly because
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It opens the bowels, kills the cold
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Georgia Coleman and Mickey Ri-
I ley to Fly Thru Fort Worth
1 Georgia Coleman, Olympic div-
ng star, and Mickey Riley, swim-
hing champion, will make a sev.
n-minute stop here tonight, en
oute from Atlanta, Ga., to Los
Ingeles via American Airways.
They are due at 8:20 p. m.
Miss Coleman and Riley will
Bart a vaudeville tour in Los An-
teles.
died at 9:45 a. m. today at the
home of Mrs. I. Courtney of
Smithfield. Mr. Matthews died
about 10 years ago.
A native of France, Mrs.* Du-
mont came to the United States
with her father when a child. She
had been a resident of Texas
three-quarters of a century. For
many yeara she lived in Austin.
Several years ago, Mrs. Du-
mont came to Fort Worth.
She haa no known relatives,
(ADVERTISEMENT)
Four Fort Worthers Mentioned ae
“Distinguished Students’
Four Fort Worth youths at-
tending A. & M. College have
been named as eligible "distin-
guished students," according to
information received here today.
The students are J. A. Burns,
M C. Dillingham, D J. Lewis and
A. J. Wolff.
"Distinguished students" must
accumulate 90 grade points dur-
ing the year and make no mark
below "B."'
SPEAK TOMORROW
Ralph Henderson, Houston F resi-
dent, to Re Among Guests
Ralph D. Henderaon, president
of the Houston Rotary Club and '
former member of the Fort
Worth club, will be among visit-
ors here tomorrow to hear Presi-
dent Clinton P. Anderson of Ro-
tary International. Mr. Anderson
will apeak at the Texas Hotel at
noon. .
Mr. Henderson, business man-
ager of the Houston Press, tor-
merly was business manager of
the Fort Worth Press.
.Other visitors will include 75
.members of the Dallas club and
12 from Noeons. They will join
Fort Worth Rotarians In celebrat-
ing the 20th birthday of the local
club and the 28th anniversary of
Rotary International.
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Model Clings to Life at Hospital
Here
With her skull crushed and
still unconscious, Marcell Drake,
18, art model, today clung to life
at Methodist Hospital after physi-
clans had despaired of saving her.
Miss Drake was struck in the
face by a steel beam when an
auto in which she was riding
crashed into the rear of a truck
on the Jacksboro Highway near
Northwest 12th Street Tuesday
night. She waa a model at Ine
Texas Art School, 1100 Lipscomb
Street.
F. W. Fitzsimmons, 20, 2830
Burchill Road, driver of the auto,
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