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IF SALES TAX F
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
IS
Revenue Committee Scored
For Failing To Act On
‘Single Shot’ Bills ■
Need for U. S. Action To
Meet Competition On
Seas Seen By Simms
# By United Press.
E AUSTIN, Oct. 22. — Revenue
E and taxation committeemen and
* lobbyists seeking to prevent taxa-
% tion of their interests were sharp-
S ly criticized in the House of Rep-
S resentatives today. N
: The committee was attacked
- for its failure to act on "single
% shot” tax bills last night, lobby-
" ists for “a concerted attempt to
5 force a sales tax" to keep the
= burden off their businesses.
E “I wish Allred had one-twenti-
eth the influence of the sulphur
E HOW TARRANT SOLONS
VOTED ON PENSION
AUSTIN. Oct. 22. — How
Tarrant County representa-
J lives voted on Traylor Rus-
£ sell pension bill substitute
» paying old age pension to
practically everybody who
. could qualify under consti-
tutional amendment:
Against: Farmer, Duvall
and Youngblood.
Absent: Smith and Great-
house.
I By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
I Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
■ WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. —
■ Great Britain is using the tense
■ situation in Europe and Africa to
I regain world supremacy on the
I seas and make herself invulner-
I able in the air. €
1 Unless the United States unex-
1 pectedly abandons its policy of
I naval equality.-
I therefore. It
may soon find
it necessary to
appropriate up-
ward of a bil-
lion d o 1 1 a r s
merely to keep
up with the
procession. For
England will be
closely followed
by Japan.
Britain plans
to spend a bil-
lion dollars on
sea and air
ar m a ment as
Simms.
; lobby,” Franklin Spears, San An-
2. tonlo, author of a bill to increase
5 sulphur taxes, told the House. "All
■I Thursday afternoon Roy Miller
(sulphur company representative)
. stood on the floor of this House.
- That night the revenue and taxa-
S tion committee had no quorum.
* Somebody gave a barbecue.”
Senators Debate Pension.
S The Senate listened to debate
* between Sens. T. J. Holbrook,
* Galveston, and Claud Westerfeld,
% Dallas, over pensions. Mr. Hol-
5 brook said the proposal to pay
i pensions to all over 65 Is the
5 "wild dream of Socialists and the
. mad ravings of anarchists." Mr.
• Westerfeld replied that the need
2 for pensions is the result of past
7 legislatures' failing to check mo-
s nopolies. -
E The Legislature wrote two Im-
* portant “dont's” into old-age pen-
- sion legislation.
% 1. The House yesterday re-
S fused to pay the pension to prac-
: tically everybody who could qual-
* ify under the constitutional
J amendment. The substitute was
= tabled, 91 to 41.
J This means it favors putting
: the pension on a basis of need.
: This kind of pension would cost
: from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000
- per year. The House was told it
would take from $40,000,000 to
* $70,000,000 to pay the pension to
: everybody over 65 and that a
2 sales tax would be the Inevitable
1 result.
- 2. The Senate cut the sales tax
X out of its pension bill yesterday.
Senate Issue Confused.
* A point of order against the
X constitutionality of including a
• sales tax in a pension bill was so
2 mixed up in the issue as submit-
• ted by Lieut. Gov. Walter Woodul
: that the action cannot be consid-
* ered a strict test of the attitude
- of the Senate toward paying pen-
- alone with a sales tax.
X Traytor Russell of Mount Pleas-
* ant said: “I don't think it’s fair
: to bar a man who has had the
foresight and industry to accu-
- mulate a little property and say to
E a man across the street who never
- did anything and never wanted to.
= 'Come in and we'll take care of
% you; you deserve a pension.'"
The defeated substitute would
have made the maximum income
of pensioners $360 per year, that
- is, their income would have been
" supplemented up to that amount.
X If they earned $100, the state and
X federal governments would give
: them $260.
- W. W. Glass of Jacksonville of-
- fered a plan to pay everybody
$3(0. regardless of his income. It
was defeated 76 to 55.
Limit Is Raised.
: This put the House back on
- the Harlee Morrison bill, which
disqualifies any man with a $360
annual income from getting a pen-
X sion.
X The House tabled A. M. Aikin'a
* amendment to raise the limit to
X $1000 net income.
It adopted, however, by a vote
of 81 to 38, George Davisson's
. amendment to raise it to $720.
: The points of order In the Sen-
» ate were based on the constitu-
X tional provision that revenue-rais-
ing measures must originate in
• the House.
2 The sales tax was voted out of
the bill by a vote of 24 to 5.
: WPA SEWING ROOM
GIVES JOBS TO 72
Mr. J. A. Whitener, 3140 South Adams, is shown here in
his flower garden with his daughter, Robbie Jo Whitener, 18.
J. A. Whitener Has Raised Flowers for Hobby; Heads
Exposition Opening On Hemphill Today
From the beautiful Dahlia garden of J. A. Whitener, chair-
man of the executive committee. South Fort Worth Civic League,
a collection of his choice flowers are entered in the league's flower
show today at 3900 Hemphill St.
Red, pink, white, yellow and orchid dahlias ,some rising more
than six feet cover his backyard •----
at 3140 South Adams.
The flower show, starting this
morning, is open all day to the
public. A musical program at
7:30 p. m. will be followed by a
talk by Mrs. Will Lake, director
of the Municipal Rose Gardens.
Mr. Whitener, who is principal
of the South Fort Worth school,
has raised dahlias as a hobby for
six years. He prunes and nurses
the long stems with great tender-
ness.
The first frost will kill the
stems'down to the ground. Then
Mr. Whitener will cover the bulbs
with heavy soil and wait pa-
tiently until next spring, when he
will start grooming the flowers
into another spreading garden.
PEGLER OFF TO
VIEW EUROPE
Press Columnist Leaves
To Get Ringside Seat
At War Volcano
(Starts on Page 1).
on whom the experiment is being
tried.
An expert critic, the nationally
known commentator will be much
in the position of a dramatic critic
reviewing a play. The reviewer’s
job is to gauge the effect of the
play on the audience. The' play
in this case will be the Ethiopian
war, the audience will be the rest
of Europe—what It thinks and
feels as the drama down in Africa
unfolds. Stuffed shirts or gallery
gods—diplomats and humble toil-
ers—Mr. Pegler will try to turn
them inside out. ,:
He will debunk the propaganda
of the type that led the United
States directly into the World
War, at least that part of the
propaganda which untruthfully
portrays European public senti-
ment.
Visiting England, Mr. Pegler
will know very shortly what the
average British citizen thinks
about it all. Should the British
fleet be withdrawn from the Medi-
terranean? It costs money to keep
fleets and hundreds of men away
from home. Does the average citi-
zen think Great Britain should
stomp on the toe of the Italian
"boot?” Or should Great Britain,
in his opinion, keep hands off in-
sofar as force is concerned. News
reports carry official' action but
does the public concur in the ac-
tion?
He will go into Italy and inter-
view some of the mothers of boys
"over there” in sweltering Africa
fighting for a “cause.” And what
is in the mind of the father as he
balls and black bread and wonders
how long It will be before he's
down to the spaghetti alone. Is
Mussolini a hero—or a maniac—
to him’
Into France where public senti-
ment always is divided—until the
Marsellaise drowns out caution.
Are they—the people—with Italy
or the League of Nations, and
Great Britain? Which way would
they want France to turn—If? «
Into Germany, still recovering
fast as her dock yards and her
motor and plane -industries can
turn out orders.
No Agreement Seen
British leaders have turned the
war scare into ammunition not
only to capture the coming elec-
tions, but to win popular — even
pacifist—support for building the
world’s mightiest navy and air-
force.
Such are some of the effects
which the world crisis already is
beginning to have on the United
States. Huge increases in the
world’s leading navies and aerial
armadas are seen as inevitable.
And while the Administration says
it will gladly participate in pro-
posed parleys to limit building
programs, no one in authority
here sees much hope of early
agreement.
In Britain as well as Japan
there exists a widespread feeling
that if they build large fleets the
United States may object, but
probably will not keep pace.
In 1921, when the Washington
Conference was called, America
was on the way to having the most
formidable fleet of fighting ships
ever launched. Japan also was
building feverishly. Not being
able to keep up, the British liter-
ally jumped at this country’s of-
fer of reduction and limitation
on an equality basis.
Today Britain’s financial situ-
ation is improved. Where this
country is spending billions on
relief, she has spent only modest
sums. Now her “big navy” crowd,
hacked by the government, plans
to kill two birds with one stone—
create employment and boost na-
tional recovery by building ships
and planes.
down the hillside rfom the en-
•my entrenchments.
Near the, summit the Dubats
broke their formation Into scat-
tered files and stormed the sum-
mit. So steep was the bill that
men fell repeately to their knees.
The Ethiopians concentrated'
their force at the right side of
the fort and poured machine gun
and rifle bullets into the at-
tackers. A flank attack dislodged
first a few, then all, with bloody
hand to hand fights raging be-
tween individuals all over the
fort.
The two- Ethiopian machine
guns were devastating to the Du-
bats to the last. A Dubat chief-
tain captured one gun single-
handed, killing all its crew.
Small groups of Ethiopians, rout-
ed, still fought guerrilla fashion
from natural emplacements
around the fort. The mopping-
up occupied the attackers until
late evening.
Before subjugation of Dagnerel
was completed the irregulars of
Sultan Olol-Dinel attacked Gidle,
a fortified village at the south-
eastern foot of the cliff on which
Dagnerei is located.
They encountered savage bat-
tle from fleeing remnants of the
Dagnerei force, who mounted
their remaining machine gun on
the parapet of a shoulder deep
trench and held off the attackers
until nightfall forced a truce.
On Salruday morning Major
Fava brought reinforcements and
before noon the Ethiopians were
dislodged and, chased up the
right embankment of the Webbe
Shibeli toward Kallafao.
A large force of Dubats pur-
sued in motor lorries with hope
of destroying the fugitives.
I talked to several prisoners,
who included an officer of the
regular army of Ras Nassibu and
a native of the Gababursi tribe
of British Somaliland who slipped
across the border to fight with
the Ethiopians.. He admitted he
is a British subject.
' All the prisoners were awed
at the devastation wrought by
the aerial bombardment and said
their commanders had considered
Dagnerel impregnable because of
its natural position.
FORMER RESIDENT
TO BE BURIED HERE
Rites for Mrs. J. F. Cherry Will
Be in Mount Olivet
Mrs. J. F. Cherry, 85, former
resident of Fort Worth, who died
yesterday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. A. Corner, in
Clinton, Okla., will be burled in
Mount Olivet Cemetery at 4 p. m.
tomorrow. ’Services will be at
the grave.
Two sons, W. H. and J. H.
Cherry, live in Fort Worth. Other
survivors are four daughters, Mrs.
Comer, Mrs. George Browne and
Mrs. W. E. Thatcher of Dallas,
and Mrs. R. J. Toffelmir, of
Carlsbad, N. M.
downs his wine, spaghetti.
League Invites U. S. Views
On Sanctions Action
Against Italy
(Starts on Page 1).
ern
frontier
above), it
map
(shown in
was reported today
‘act To rent Brit
war between Italy and Eentopie
without applying military sanc-
tions. Sir Samuel Hoarse, foreign
secretary, told a crowded House
of Commons today in opening a
three-day debate on foreign policy.
' Sir Samuel declared Britain does
not intend to act alone, and mili-
tary sanctions are not practicable
because there has been no collec-
City Has Even Chance Of
Relief From Dry Spell
I Fort Worthers today stood an
•ven chance for relief from the
sultry dry spell.
Threatening skies and lower
temperatures pervaded West Tex-
Hammor
quest
In W
dsspite a supposed agreement for
lessening of tension.
Reports from the frontier were
believed to be the cause for high
pressure work which is being done
by Spinks Pasha (Maj. Gen. Sir
Charlton Spinks), inspector gener-
al of the Egyptian army, and his
staff.
The Egyptian delta region is
reported congested with trains of
war materials. #
as, bringing a prediction of prob-
able showers and cooler weather
here tonight and tomorrow with
tive agreement at Geneva to apply | a minimum temperature of be-
them generally. . tween 60 and 65 degrees tonight.
[tween «0 and 65 degrees tonight.
He indicated Britain will rely Weatherman Paul 8. Cook fore-
on economic pressure, which is in- cast partly cloudy tonight and to-
tended to limit and shorten the morrow in West Texan, with light
war.
Emperor Selassie
Flies To Inspect Troops
ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 22.—Em-
peror Haile Selassie flew to
Dessye this morning for a brief
inspection visit to his troops wait-
ing to engage the Italian army on
the northern front. He returned
to the capital at noon. '
Emperor Selassie today sent a
physician by airplane to care for
Dejasmatch Ayaleu, one of the
empire’s most - famous battle
chiefs,’ who was reported wounded
yesterday in an unsuccessful at-
tack on an Italian mountain
stronghold near the Sudan border.
Rome Puts Out New
Feeler for Peace
ROME, Oct. #2. — Truntworthy
quartern expressed belief today
that Premier Benito Mussolini
soon would be ready to open nego-
tiations for settlement of the en-
tire Italian-Ethiopian dispute.
Mussolini was said to be will-
ing to settle the,dispute on condi-
tion that Britain withdraws its |
Mediterranean fleet, the League
of Nations postpones action on
penalties, and Italy is permitted
to “consolidate" territory already
conquered.
• It seemed obvious that the con- [
ditions will not be acceptable to 1
Great Britain, the League of Na-
tions or to Ethiopia. But after
ASKS $500 DAMAGES
FOR DEATH OF DOG
to heavy frost in the north por-
tion. and somewhat colder in ths
north and west territory tonight,
Probable showers, with partly
| cloudy and cooler weather, are
predicted tonight and tomorrow
for East Texas.
While the mercury only dropped
to 73 degrees here at 7 a. m.,
_ . “ . . dipped to 36 at Muleshoe. 40 a
Testimony Concluded in Suit Miami and 44 at Amarillo and
j Plainview.
Against Freight Lines
A jury in County Court st Law
No. 1 today weighed the question:
How much damage is being done
to an owner when his pet dog is 1
killed by a truck?
Testimony was concluded be-
fore Judge Dave McGee this morn- |
ing in the action brought by J.
B. Teal, who lives in the 2400
block North Perry St., against
John P. Healy and Paul F. Healy,
operators of the Healy Motor'
Freight Lines.
Teal alleges that on March 4,
1935, Paul Healx driving a,
truck, "deliberately, wantonly
and maliciously” ran over his 11-
months-old airedale. He is ask-
ing $500 damages.
The pet, be asserts, could per- |
form many tricks, and while no
market value could be placed on
It,, he did place a high "senti-
mental” one.
Cecil Rotsch, assistant district
attorney, who qualified as a dog
expert, appeared as a witness for
the plaintiff.
SPECIAL
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
SHOES WINDENED
AND LENGTHENED
Up to One
Size or
Width
(EL
Dr. R. H. W. Dreschel
Has Returned
802 Fort Worth National Bldg.
Phone 8-2783
LOW PRICES
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Any Color ..........75e
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Number of Women Soon to Be
Increased to 400
Seventy-two women ware start-
: ed at new jobs on the WAP sew-
; ing room project this morning,
making shirts and dresses for
2 school children.
Mrs. Rosa T. Wilkes, women's
work supervisor for the WPA,
X said that the number will be in-
: creased to 100 later in the week
and to 400 as soon as materials
: are received.
t The project is at Kentucky and
* Rio Grande Ave., in rooms which
2 formerly housed the county's
• sewing room under the Texas Re-
w Hof Commission.
i 3 CHARGED IN THEFT
* Trio Accused of Robbing O. R.
X Evans of $21 Saturday
E Complaints in Justice Hal P.
5 Hughes' court today charged
X three youths with robbing 0. R.
% Evans, 602 West Magnolia Ave.,
5 of $21 Saturday. They are Leon
E Mansfield and Harry and George
5 Duffield. Only Mansfield is un-
- der arrest. Justice Hughes set
• bond for each at $1500. An ex-
# amining trial will be held Thurs-
from the last war. And into Ru-
mania to see what Queen Marie
may be thinking about and her
subjects talking about.
Probably no war has ever been
"reported” just like this. Mr.
Pegler will not go to the front.
A clear viewpoint of causes and
effects is likely to become warped
when machine guns are rattling,
bombs are dropping and cannon
booming.
Well Equipped For Job
The famed columnist is well
equipped to do the job at hand.
Formerly well known as a sports
writer, humorist, United Press cor-
respondent and feature writer, Mr.
Pegler's present column is carried
by many of the nation’s largest
newspapers.
His rare ability to see through
hokum, sense the true thoughts
behind the aloof mask of the
interviewed and report the facts
will stand him in good stead on
his latest assignment.
* Watch The Press for Westbrook
Pegler’s first article from Europe.
You’ll want to read and keep them
all.
SEIZE KIDNAP SUSPECT
By United Press.
BELZONI, Miss., Oct. 22.—The
sheriff of this rural cotton town
held a man today who she said
might be Thomas H. Robinson
Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed
Stoll. Mrs. D. F. Purvis, the
sheriff, said she was not sure
the man was Robinson. She noti-
fied federal agents in Memphis
meat and expected one here today.
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ROSALIND KEITH
TOM DROWN
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