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Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
THE FORT WORTH PRESS
Want-Ad Service—Call 2-5151
MONDAY, JULY 10,1985
Bill Offered to
Please Reliefers
Rep. Sabath Introduces
Plan to Meet Demands
Of 100,000 Strikers
By United Press
HERE IS MORE ABOUT
No War
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
insiders believe will result in a
new and early crisis. Some use
the word "test.”
These believe that Hitler plans
WASHINGTON. July 10. to take Europe once again to the
Rep. Adolph Sabath, Democrat very verge of conflict in order to
of Illinois, today introduced a determine whether or not Britain,
• bill to increase hourly wages of France and Poland actually will
. skilled relief workers as demand-fight—but to draw back at the
ed by more than 100,000 WPA last moment if convinced that
ir strikers, ’they will.
Sabath's bill would eliminate * * *
provision# of the 1940 relief act THE dangers inherent in such a
which terminated the prevailing I plan if plan It is—are only
: wage policy and substituted a too obvious. If the test is to be
system of security wages. The altogether convincing, troops and
new system in many case# re-fleets will have to take up their
quired skilled men to work twice battle positions, and orders issued
as long for the same wages they such as would not ordinarily be
formerly received. Skilled work- issued unless war was regarded as
era suspended work on thousands inescapable.
of projects in protest. •••,
Bill In Senate Too 4 e7 , n: 1
Sen. Robert F. Wagner, Demo Accident Night
crat of New York, supported by Cy , r
Sen. James F. Murray, Democrat Set Utt W ar
of Montana, is expected to intro-
duce in the Senate a bil similar And if things are carried to
to Sabath’s. 1 that extreme, the merest acci-
Works Projects Commissioner dent, or a shot
F. C. Harrington, standing firm
on his orders to state administra-
nervous sentry,
fired by a
might set
Europe ablaze.
At least one consolation, how-
. . , .ever, is held out by those who
their jobs for five days, asked | believe , test is coming. If Eu-
his state aides today for data rope manages tot escape war this
on the extent of work stoppages, summer and fall, they say, there
Wagner will introduce a bill | probably will be peace for a rela-
tomorrow which would repeal the tively long time to come By
security wage scale of the new 1940, they argue, the peace bloc
law, substituting the prevailing will be so powerful and so well
wage scale of the old law. Sev-organized that Hitler won't dare
oral Senators already have pledge attack
/ ed their support, though there is „ ... . u
no evidence of strong sentiment , Meanwhile, if it is really part
eamnm . of Hitler’s plan to keep his neigh-
I for revision, bors at high tension for so long
130 Hour# Protested that they will crack, I am afraid
The old law gave skilled con-he is doomed to disappointment.
struction workers the prevailing - *
wage on relief projects—enabling
them to earn the maximum relief
tors to drop all WPA workers
who absent themselves from
pay with some 50 hours’ work a
month. The now law requires
all WPA workers to work 130
hours a month. Organized labor
contends that this will force
Business is picking up in
France, England and Poland,
right under the Nazi guns. Part
of this pickup, of course, is due
to war work, but by no means all
of it. Not even the greater part
of it.
, wages down in the construction IN ENGLAND
industry and threatens all wage I
standards.
was told that
There was some evidence the
practically every industry, from
textiles to coal mining and from
strike waa increasing rather than
, dimininhing. Approximately 75,000
have been ordered to join the
the
strike during the week.
, The American Federation
Labor and the Congress of
dustrial Organization, sought
bring all possible pressure
house construction to shipbuild-
ing, is on the upgrade And I
heard similar reports in France.
• • •
of
In-
to
on
CFL President William Green
called a meeting of all Federation
leaders here Wednesday.
WPA Heads to Meet
WPA regional administrators
will meet with Harrington at the
same time in Chicago.
The United Federal Workers’
Uniion, representing government
employee, called a mass meeting
here for tonight to protest reduc-
tions in administrative personnel
resulting from a smaller 1040 re-
lief appropriation.
The Workers’ Security Federa-
tion, a newly organized indepen-
dent union of relief workers, an-
nounced that it was ordering its
members who joined the protect
strike to go back to work, but
that it would continue agitating
for repeal of the 130-hour month
provision.
The United Government Em-
Inc., an organization of
leral dworkers, advised
Jers not to join the walk-
■ called a negro WPA
■ conference in Chicago
Plant Waits
As Workers Parley
Failure to reach an agreement
this morning in a labor dispute
contractors and workers
ir conditioning project at
dr Bldg, forced postpone-
“negotiations until late this
on, Clifton Brignac, Build-
ides Council president, an-
-hour picket against the
tors ended yesterday after-
then the conference was
upon. Panding results of
eting, work has been sus-
" dispute arose Saturday
when the contractor began
ng an air conditioning
nd lowering it to the base-
ment, allegedly employing non-
union labor. Fair Store officials
said the dispute was between the
contractor and the workers and in
no way affected them.
Editors On Plane Miss a
Story While Playing Poker
(Starts on Page 1)
was in this instance not even an
incident.
An engineering officer Immedi-
ately noted the cutting out of the
damaged motor and a mechanic
climbed out, on the cat-walk, in-
side the huge wing. Within 10
minutes he had installed a now
throttle rod and the engine was.
functioning normally.
Not one of the passengers even
suspected that the giant airliner
had been proceeding serenely for
15 minutes with only three of its
powerful motors on the job.
So smoothly and in such a rou-
tine fashion was the flight con-
ducted, and so complete was the
absence of anything approaching
the dramatic or spectacular, that
the guest editors who would have
liked to prove they are still good
reporters, were landed at South-
ampton without a vestige of a
“story" on which to demonstrate
their journalistic skill.
The fact is, the only mishap
during the flight was a complete
crackup of the passenger’s sleep-
ing program. This resulted from
the plane’s rapid dash eastward
to meet the rising sun five hours
ahead of schedule.
Passengers who turned in to
their berths at 11 p. m. by their
own watches, set at New York
time, were a little startled to find
that they actually were retiring
at 4 a. m.—according to the time
schedule by which they were to
have their high-altitude breakfast
as the Clipper neared the Irish
Coast.
On arrival at Southampton, the
airliner’s log showed that the ac-
tual time the plane was in the air
from Port Washington to South-
ampton was 19 hours and 34 min-
utes.
Those in the party, after pro-
ceeding from Southampton to Lon-
don by train, re-embarked at Croy-
don Airport for Le Bourget, made
the flight to Paris in one of the
Britleh Imperial Airways’ speedy
Albatross planes, in one hour and
two minutes.
This made the actual flying
time from New York to Parle just
20 hours and 36 minutes which,
according to Pan-American offi-
cials, is the fastest time made by
anyone flying from New York to
Paris. Lindbergh’s memorable
flight of 12 years ago took 33
hours and 30 minutes. •
Pictures Record Flight
Perhaps even more remarkable
than the flying time was the fact
that so thoroughly organized and
so routine was the performance
that the highlights of the flight
were furnished by photographers'
flash bulbs as they recorded the
starting and the conclusion of the
crossing.
Veteran air travelers who made
the trip found that it was about
as thrilling and spectacular as the
20th Century or Broadway Limit-
ed train trip between New York
and Chicago.
In truth and in fact to those
who concluded yesterday's flight,
crossing the Atlantic by plane to-
day is merely another and quicker
way of getting here to there and
vice versa.
HERE IS MORE ABOUT
Heat Routed
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
HERE IS MORE ABOUT
Greek Group
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
HERE IS MORE ABOUT
News Quickies
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
bons on delegates lapels, an-
nouncing his candidacy. Ella# Ge-
toura of Houston, present district
governor, running for re-election,
was campaigning quietly.
Another Fort Worth law stu-
dent, Pete Davis, was seeking a
second term as lieutenant gover-
nor of the Sons of Pericles.
700 Attend Barbecue
At a lamb barbecue in Casino
0:4 / Park yesterday the 700 delegates
tiave o Laying and their wives frolicked at soft-
ball, swimming and dancing, with
San Antonio emerging as district
champion in a softball tourna-
Awake at Night
The nations of the anti-
aggression bloc, fully realize
that they may have to fight,
and they are feverishly prepar-
ing to do so. But they have
quit lying awake night# worry-
ing about it — for the reason,
perhaps, that they are now ma-
terially and morally much bet-
ter prepared than a* year ago.
True, they are still digging
trenches in parks, building bomb-
proof shelters, rehearsing air-raid
I precautions, perfecting civilian
evacuation plans, and all that sort
of thing. But all this has now
become normal on this side of the
Atlantic, just as during the World
War the unusual quickly became
the usual.
I recall the astonishment of
newly arrived Americans, visit-
ing the front back in those days,
when they saw peasants calmly
tilling the soil just behind the
lines, quite as though nothing
unusual was going on. At first
the inhabitants had run away.
Soon, however, they drifted back
to their abandoned farm# and
their old routine.
Public opinion in France, Brit-
ain and Poland has now reached
that stage. Conditions are dif-
ferent, of course, and Hitler may
still have to be dealt with, but
all signs of jitters are gone, and
life has pretty nearly resumed its
normal course.
(Tomorrow, Mr. Simms will
write from the Free City of
Danzig.)
Educator’s Father Dies
By United Press.
GARY, July 10.-Funeral serv-
ices were to be held this after-
noon for James Austin Walton, 80,
father of Dr. T. O. Walton, presi-
dent of Texas A. & M. College.
Walton died at his home last
night. He also is survived by his
wife and by another son, T. H.
Walton of Carthage, and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Clyde Thomae of Snyder.
Mueblebach’s Pilsener Is Enjoyed Everywhere
WELL-WHERE X
DO YOU RECKON
A FELLER CAN
LOOK AND NOT SEE
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TIE GREEN BomE
SO, MUENLERACH BREWING co.
KANSAS CITY, MO
ment.
A feature of tomorrow’s ses-
sions will be debate tourney
among the Sons of Pericles, with a
silver trophy and a trip to the
National Debating Tournament
finals in Providence, R. I., as the
winner's stake.
Adams, 3515 8, Henderson, paid
her fare with five fruit jars filled
with pennies. Mr. Adams said he
and the baby's mother collected
odd pennies in a sort of self-im-
posed “sales tax" with which to
pay hospitalization costs. The
five fruit jars contained $25.
* * *
Cleburne—The Johnson coun-
ty sheriff’s department is go-
ing scientific. Deputy Henry
Taft has gone to Washington to
attend the Federal Bureau of
Identification training school,
being one of 85 appointed in the
United States to take the
course. Mr. Taft formerly was
a railroad detective in Fort
Worth.
HERE IS MORE ABOUT
Britain Speaks
STARTS ON PAGE ONE
Honey Grove—The cucumber
may be one of the more lowly
vegetables but its still a money
crop, according to Paul J. Hintz,
who lives north of here. He
bought 95 cents worth of seed,
planted an acre in cucumbers,
made two plowings and one chop-
ping, and already has sold $100
worth of the crop — a profit of
$99.05 on his invesmtent.
gaged in a race, were rescued by
other boats and by police.
On the southern and eastern
sides of the state, cooling show-
ers brought relief from the op-
pressive heat.
Today's forecasts promised East
Texas more showers and partly
cloudy weather tomorrow.
West Texas benefited from re-
laxation of its hot spell. Lubbock
and Amarillo and Wink recorded
light rains. Temperaturee gener-
ally were forced down throughout
the Panhandle and on the high
plains. El Paso's temperature
remained high yesterday with a
maximum of 98, but a cooling
rain fell during the night,
• The hottest spot in Texas yes-
terday was Encinal, with 114 de-
grees. Other,temperatures includ-
ed Hondo 112, Uvalde, Alice, Bee-
ville and Victoria 110, Abilene 97,
Amarillo 89, Brownsville 103, Luf-
kin 102, Wichita Falls 99, Bren-
ham 100, Fort Stockton 100, Long-
view 104, Luling 106, Nacogdoches
98, San Angelo 1061 Taylor 104,
Temple 100.
HEAT KILLS 57,
DAMAGES CROPS
By UNITED PRESS
Showers and cooling breezes
ended today a week-long heat
wave which killed 57 persons and
caused heavy damage to crops. .
U. S. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd at
Chicago said cooler weather was
general throughout the country
except in some sections of the
west and northwest. He said tem-
peratures might begin to climb
again tomorrow or Wednesday.
A mass of cold air moving east-
ward over the Midwest and scat-
tered thundershowers in the East.
South and Southwest, combined to
tumble temperatures.
Twelve of the heat deaths were
in Massachusetts. Illinois had
six; Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa
and Wisconsin five each; Missouri,
four; Alabama, Minnesota, Kan-
sas, Indiana and Louisiana, two
each; and Arkansas, Tennessee.
Oklahoma, Maine and Rhode Is-
land, one each. In addition, the
New England states reported that
30 persons had drowned while
seeking relief from the heat.
Drought conditions damaged
crops in New England and mid-
western farmers reported that
their corn, which in some states
was damaged two weeks ago by
too much rain, had suffered from
the blistering heat. However,
farmers anticipated an excellent
crop.
Arizona was the hottest stats
in the country yesterday before
temperatures started to drop.
Phoenix and Yuma reported higns
of 112.
Delay Bonnie Brae Job
Work on the $44,458 Bonnie
Brae Blvd. project in Riverside,
scheduled to start* this morning,
was delayed when a WPA erew
was unavailable for the project.
City engineers were on hand,
but had to postpone launching the
project. The esplanade, calling
for two 30-foot roadways with an
80-foot parkway between, will
connect E. Belknap with the new
Riverside High School. Measur-
ing 180 feet with sidewalks and
side parkways, the boulevard will
be three blocks long.
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1 Storm Warnings Up
HERE IS MORE ABOUT
Budget Slash
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system at a coot of around $1,-
000,000. a year with 70,000 acres
of land, no interest, no taxes and
7000 laborer# was criticized. "Any
business man could take a propo-
sition like that and make a lot
of profit,” O'Daniel said.
He re-iterated he will let state
problem# wait for solving until
the regular session of the Legis-
lature in January, 1941, and
thought that talk of a special ses-
sion waa growing fainter.
ss
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caught the sails and swept the to secsiomaly stoogs southeme
sailboat 50 yards awayand suit wide and stalls ^ ,
Lines Were Tawged Femssito to New Oils, and
Although his lines were tangled feest to strong eautenty to *
in the first rescue and the wind ery windle and squiatE o M
was against him Walker managed gaw City. Lay to Port AHu
to get his boat * position and -------------------------
4 Are Saved
picked up Grigsby, who was mause-.
ated as well as frantic. Irvine div-
ed and held Mrs Penney above the
water until the sailboat could be
brought alongside.
Mr. Walker said the small out-
board could not have held the
quartet up much longer. Paynes
was the only one who could swim
he was told.
Lake boatmen praised the work
of Mr. Walker in manewering Hie
tiny craft in the rough waters.
It was the third time that Mr.
Haynes boat had been eapaized.
Each time the occupants were sav.
ed. |
O'DANIEL REMITS
TAXES TO COUNTIES
By United Press.
AUSTIN, July 10. — Governor
O'Daniel today announced he had
signed the bill of the Legislature
remitting to counties half the ad
valorem state -taxes collected in.
them for a period of five years.
The money will be available for
local uses.
Fifty - seven counties of the
state already have all or part of
their state ad valorem taxes re-
mitted for special purposes for
varying periods up to 25 years.
Sen. Rudolph Weinert, Seguin, au-
thor of the tax remission bill, had
contended it was unfair to remit
to some and not to all. He esti-
mated the money given to coun-
ties for their local use# by the
bill will be approximately $3,000,-
000 a year.
A general clause in the act says
the money may be used by the
counties for any purpose not spe-
cifically prohibited by the state
constitution.
• In signing the bill the Gover-
nor said he put his faith in the
County Commissioners Courts to
see the money is carefully guard-
ed and wisely expended, and that
wherever' it le possible that a
corresponding reduction be made
incounty ad valorem tax rates.
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military and economic strangle-
hold on her.
Chamberlain contended that
maintenance of the status quo in
Danzig was in fact guaranteed by
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler himself up
to 1944 by a 10-year rteaty (since
denounced by Hitler) concluded
with the late Marshal Pilsudski,
Says Issue Not Urgent
Chamberlain said that up until
last March, Germany appeared to
feel that the whole position might
ultimately result in revision of
Danzig’s status, but that the ques-
tion was neither urgent nor like-
ly to lead to a seeious dispute.
In March, when the German
Government submitted an offer
accompanied by a fresh campaign,
he conitnued, the Polish Govern-
ment realized it might be faced
with a one-sided solution which
it would have to resist.
Insured
Investments
and Savings
GUARANTEED
PAR VALUE
JUNE 30 DIVIDEND 4%
Here Federal Insurance pro-
tects and guarantees the par
value of Tour Investment or
Savings up to $5,000.00.
Dividend# paid in Cash or
Compounded every six
months.
Monthly or Lump Sum
Plans.
Convenient withdrawal priv-
ileges without fees or pen-
al ties.
On investments made
on or before July 10,
dividends will be com-
puted from July 1.
1%
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Lewis D. Fox, President
nzecmc PENNIES SAVE FOOD DOLLARS
Buy An Electric Refrigerator Now
from Your Local Dealer
1XAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY
We Buy Groceries on
Banzain Days and
Keep Them Fresh with
Bangain Electricity
• It takes a lot of shopping around and a
lot of reading of newspaper advertisements
to keep up with the grocery bargains, but
bargain electricity if always on hand to
keep food fresh in your electric refriger-
ator or to do any number of jobs around
- the house.
Your electricity if more than ever the big-
gest bargain in the home. Electricity costs
less now than it did even a few years ago
when everything was low, and is one of the
smallest items of expense in the average
household.
Nothing you buy costs so little yet does so
much as your Cheap Electric Service.
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