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VOL. 18, NO. 260
Rumania And
Hu
ar
On Frontier
Machine Guns, Rifles
Lash Out In Sharp ‘
Border Engagement
By United Press.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 1.
The government today announced
a third frontier clash with Ruma-
nians of the Theiss River, where
machine guns and rifles were
3
Alert Jail
Guard Foils
Break Here
By DELBERT WILLIS
Four county jail prisoners, in-
cluding one life-termer and 18-
year-old Sidney Adami, were in-
volved in an unsuccessful jail-
break which was discovered after
they had sawed through one set
of jail bars, it was revealed to-
day.
Sheriff A. B. Carter today oon-
firmed the report of the attempt-
ed break 12 days ago and said it
was not revealed because “we are
supposed to stop those things and
we did, so there is nothing to it.”
Guard Gets Credit
used in sharp fighting.
The announcement said that t - - - . -----
Rumanians this morning placed Reed, was given credit for frus-
an artillery battery in position trating the escape plans of Adami,
along the river bank, but that it recently —4 * “-------4-
had not yet gone into action.
The Hungarian version of the
clashes, which began Sunday
when Rumanians allegedly fired
on a Hungarian raft on the river,
was that Rumanians opened lire
with machine guns and rifles
across the river on the village of
•Tecsoe. They also were charged
with firing on Hungarian bridge
guards.
The Hungarian patrol returned
the fire, the announcement said,
and the shooting continued until
dawn today.
Ill feeling between Hungary and
Rumania recently has been fos-
tered by groups demanding return
to Hungary of the area seized by
the Bucharest government after
the World War.
RUMANIA BLAMES
$ HUNGARIAN CRAFT
| By United Press."
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug.
1.—The Bucharest radio reported
h today that several incidents had
occurred on the Hungarian-Ruma-
| nian border in the last 10 days,
culminating in an exchange of
shots between border guards at
Pecsoe, after the Rumanians had
warned Hungarian craft on the
Theiss River to cease touching
Rumanian territory.
Rumanian quarters described
theelincidents as provocation and
off trade talks with the
Hungarians at Sinaia.
IMANS FLAY
AMBERLAIN TALK
foul Press.
RLIN, Aug. 1.—The authori-
I Deutscher Dienst Agency,
ly criticizing Prime Minister
le Chamberlain’s speech to
ouse of Commons, said today
t wished to assure him that
"German Danzig will return to
the Reich unaffected by foreign
political debates and theatrical
equestions in Commons."
“It exceeds the limits of pa-
tience, however,” the agency con-
tinued, "when Chamberlain in the
face or continuous action against
y life and property of Germans in
Poland finds words of praise for
the peace-endangering attitude of
Poland •
• Discussing Chamberlain’s refer-
‘ ences to the Far East, the agency
said:
"Most valuable for us is the
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Quickies In
Day's News
OCEANSIDE, Cal.—It’s Uken
a five-week-old calf here to put
%. the Florida Chamber of Com-
merce on the spot. Today dairy-
men flocked to Oceanside to see
the calf give milk, a feat not
— expected of it for two years yet.
Experts explained, however, that
the calf is larger than a normal
one of the same age. They cred-
ited inbreeding, not California
| weather, for the phenomenon.
* * *
PINEVILLE, Mo—It couldn’t
happen anywhere else-
Last year Ozark moun-
taineers here worked as extras
. for a few days in the filming
′ of “Jesse James.”
Now many of them draw un-
employment compensation — as
unemployed actors.
€ * * *
HOLLYWOOD.—Helen Lee
Worthing, once blonde beauty of
the Follies who married a negro
physician 12 years ago, today
faced four counts of forging nar-
cotic prescriptions*.
Miss Worthing, who dropped
stardom on Broadway in 1927 to
become the wife of Dr. Eugene
C. Nelson, was arrested last
week when she presented the pre-
scriptions at a drug store. She
was divorced four years ago.
DOVER, N. H.—People never
, misspell the first name of a re-
tired lumber dealer here — he
has. none. Known solely as
"Mr. Tifft,” the former New
Yorker explains:
“My father—Abraham Her-
bert Tifft—went through life
hating his name. When I was
born he and mother couldn’t
agree on a name for me. They
decided to let me pick one ‘out.
I’ve never had time.”----------' .—Dr. George K.
Fisher, a small town physician,
doesn’t think all the world’s
knowledge lies in medical books.
Fast losing a battle to save
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Angalert jail guard,
Benton
recently sentenced to six years in
the penitentiary; Buster Calloway,
sentenced to life in the peniten-
tiary on conviction as an habitual
criminal; Dale Howard, 23, and
Clyde Caty, 25, who were shot out
of a stolen car near Benbrook
last month, .
Guards Warned
Sheriff Carter said all guards
had been warned to watch for any
escape moves after a tin can, tied
to a long cotton string, had been
found beside the west wall of the
jail.
It was presumed then that the
can had been used to pull up some
object, possibly a file.
Mr. Reed, after making his
regular rounds, doubled back on
the fifth floor in five minutes in-
stead of waiting until the next
hourly round. The prisoners.
Sheriff Carter explained, knew
exactly what time the regular in-
spection rounds came and laid
plans accordingly.
Found Him In Run-Around
Mr. Reed found Dale Howard
in the run-around, nutside his cell,
which had been sawed through at
the bottom.
“How did you get out here?”
Mr. Reed was quoted as asking
Dale.
“Right there,” Dale said, point-
ing to two sawed bars.
Without a word, Dale walked
back into his cell. A small saw
file was found inside the cell. Had
he not been caught, he would have
had two more sets of bars to file
through before reaching the out-
side of the building.
Dale was placed in solitary
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Stock Handlers.
Threaten Strike
Union Takes Vote
After Firm Declines
To Enter Contract
Union livestock handlers, charg-
ing that Fort Worth Stockyards
Co. refused to sign a contract aft-
er weeks of labor negotiations had
achieved a virtual agreement, to-
day hurled at the company a
threat of strike and more drastic
demands.
The union last night by two-
thirds vote authorized its nego-
tiations committee to call a strike
if it deemed such action neces-
sary.
The company’s refusal to enter
into a contract “at this time” oc-
curred last Saturday, after direc-
tors had met in Chicago. The
firm’s officials today refused to
comment, said they would issue a
statement later.
Kermit Fry, field agent for CIO
livestock unions, asserted that ne-
gotiations since March had result-
ed in virtual agreement of em-
ployers and workmen for strict
seniority rules, a five-day week
with time-and-half overtime pay,
an arbitration set-up, but without
any immediate wage increase or
any “check off system.”
Only point not settled was that
of a “closed shop," he said, as-
serting that the workmen prob-
I ably would have relinquished that
demand in return for the improv-
ed working conditions, had not the
company declined a contract Sat-
urday.
“If we have to strike to get a
contract.’ said Laborman Fry,
"we’ll demand a closed shop, in-
creased wages and a check-off sys-
tem."
THE WEATHER
Cloudy
LOCAL — Partly
cloudy tonight and
Wednesday; mini-
mum temperature
tonight near 75 de-
grees and maxi-
mum Wednesday
near 94 degrees.
WEST TEXAS-1
Partly cloudy to-
night and Wednes-
day, cooler in the
Panhandle W e d-v
nesday.
Barometric Pressure: 29.36,
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
Time—
12 Midnight
2 a. m. ..
4a.m ..
YearAgo Yes day Today
.....82 80
a. m.
a m.
00 n
6 p.
Sun
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1939
Fort Worther
Steals Auto,
Flees Prison
Leonard Ross Miller
Makes His Escape
From Eastham Farm
Leonard Rose Miller, 34-year-old
Tarrant County convict who was
sentenced to three life sentences
here last June, was at liberty to-
day following his escape from the
Eastham Prison Farm in the auto
of a prison official. It was the
second time he had broken out of
prison.
Miller, who started his criminal
career at the age of 12, jumped
in the auto of G. W. Lacewell, as-
sistant farm manager, and sped
away from the farm yesterday.
He was accompanied by Andrew
H. Nelson, who had served five
years of sentences totaling 11
years from Terry;" Dickinson,
Floyd, Stephens and Lubbock
Counties.
Find Abandoned Auto
The auto was found abandoned
a few miles from the prison camp.
Miller was sentenced to the
Gatesville Reformatory in 1917,
given a year sentence in the U. S.
penitentiary at Leavenworth in
1923 for postoffice burglary, re-
turned there in 1932 for a year
for violating the prohibition laws.
Captured Here in 1935
In 1934 he was convicted of
burglary in Fayette County and
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Ragan Verdict is
Postponed Again
Justice Seeks Cause
Of Wound; Defectives
Ready to End Probe
A verdict in the railroad death
of John O. Ragan, attorney killed
beneath the Summit Ave. overpass
early Sunday, was delayed again
today as Justice of Peace Gus
Brown sought an explanation for
a gash found on Mr. Ragan’s fore-
head. .
Justice Brown asked investigat-
ing officers to look along the rail-
road tracks for some instrument
might might have been used to
strike the attorney. He said,
however, that the switch engine
which killed him might have in-
flicted the wound.
City detectives said they were
prepared to end their inquiry after
taking statements from two negro
youths, who said they saw “a
white man” lying in the middle
of the tracks an hour before the
accident. The youths were tak-
ing a short-cut home from a pic-
ture show, they told officers.
“I could see him breathing,”
said Melvin Roosevelt Langston,
17, of 2006 Worth.
“We figured we might get in
trouble if we bothered him,” said
Rufus Allen Matthews, 16, of
2101 W. Morphy.
The detectives also had inter-
viewed a downtown building man-
ager, who told of Mr. Ragan’s
visit to his (Mr. Ragan’s) office
late Saturday.
PRICE THREE CENTS
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Livestock Trucks
Freed From Ruling
Shipments On Sunday
Are Exempted, Rail
Commission Decides
Livestock being moved to Fort
Worth and other cattle centers
for Monday’s market will be ex-
empted from the SUte Railroad
Commission’s “Remember the
Sabbath” order against operation
of hired trucks on congested high-
ways on Sundays and specified
holidays,” it was reported from
Austin today.
The order first excluded only
fresh meat, poultry, milk, eggs,
dairy products and perishable
fruits and vegetables. The amend-
ment permits movement of all
perishable agricultural products
as well as livestock and has a
clause permitting operation of
the trucks in emergencies.
Hauling equipment to an oil
field in case of broken machinery
was cited by Commissioner Er-
nest O. Thompson as an “emer-
gency.”
The order will take effect next
Sunday.
Directors of the Texas Motor
Transportation Assn, are to meet
in Austin Aug. 12, and will likely
decide then if the order shall be
protested. A similar meeting of
truck operators was reported to
be planned at Dallas this week.
Casa to Get Boost
A nation-wide boost for Casa
Manana will be heard Friday at
9:45 a. m. on the Scattergood
Baines program, sponsored by
William Wrigley Co., Roscoe Ady,
Chamber of Commerce publicity
director, was advised today. Dal-
las’ KRLD will carry the broad-
5 .. cast in this area.
1 19 •• The sponsors recently wrote Mr.
Ady requesting Casa Manana
" 6.42; sets 1 as. facts, which he sent them. —
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Hurrah!
New Casa
Is Coming
Casa Manana’s
U
BATTLES TO KILL
ENDING BILL IN HOUSE
--------------------- - Administration
Seeks to Force
Consideration
By United Press. . ■
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—The
House opened debate on Ite own
$1,950,000,000 version of the
Roosevelt lending MU today with
Republicans fighting to kill it
forthwith.
The Republicans hoped to defeat
a rule making consideration of the
bill in order. A vote on the rule
was scheduled after the first
hour’s debate.
Outcome in Doubt.
House leaders appeared to enter-
tain doubt as to the outcome.
Speaker William B. Bankhead said
be had no idea how long the MU
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.—Au-
thoritative White House sources
indicated today that President
Roosevelt probably will oct with-
In 24 hours on the Hatch bill,
designed to exclude most fed-
eral employes from political ae-
tivities.
A big revolving stage will wheel a new show before the spotlights Friday night. There’ll be new dances new
songs at And hergcare glimpses of a few new costumes that the Casa chorus beauties will wear. The two dancers in the
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loves-me trappings with the chorus in a flower dance, in which + he girls will appear as’different typer blossoms, the she-
Home Owners
To Get Shock
State Makes Increase
Of $8,500,000 In
Ad Valorem Tax
By DICK VAUGHAN
Press Austin Bureau.
AUSTIN, Aug. 1.—Texas prop-
erty owners are in for a shock—
about $8,500,000 worth of it.
That is the increase in the state
ad valorem tax which the State
Automatic Tax Board must vote
in order to pay $22 per capita aid
to the state’s school districts next
year.
Estimates of revenue compiled
by State Comptroller George
Sheppard show that the state ad
valorem tax must be increased
from 49 cents per $100 valuation
to the limit of 77 cents in order
to pay the $22 per capita state
aid to schools.
This will cost property owners
$8,500,000 per year.
The increase will be all in the
school tax levy, which must go up
from seven cents to the limit of
35 cents to make the state aid
payments. The Confederate pen-
sion tax of seven cents and the
general tax of 35 cents are al-
ready at their limit.
Estimates on which the ad va-
lorem tax rate are based were
given to Governor O’Daniel late
yesterday. The governor is head
of the automatic tax board, which
also includes the comptroller and
State Treasurer Charlie Lockhart.
The governor made no imme-
diate comment pn them.
“Leave them and I’ll look them
over,” he said.
The board, however, is sup-
posed to be “automatic,” as its
name implies, and is supposed au-
tomatically to set the tax rate at
a figure sufficient to pay the
school aid, Confederate pensions
and keep the general fund in
shape.
Even by setting the tax at the
maximum, this will be impossible.
With the tax rate for schools
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Japanese Embarrass
American Woman
By United Press.
SHANGHAI, Aug. 1. —
SHANGHAI, Aug. 1. — Mrs.
Harry Wilhoit, American, said on
her arrival here today that she
had been partly disrobed at the
order of Japanese soldiers as she
was about to board a steamship
at Tsingtao.
Mrs. Wilhoit, formerly Miss S.
N. Leibgold and a native of Se-
attle, said the Japanese took from
her 240 Chinese dollars ($21).
They gave her a “receipt" for
them, she said, but refused to per-
mit her to take any of her Chinese
money with her for traveling ex-
penses.----j---:---------------3----
would take in the amendment
process "if the rule is adopted.”
Rep. Cari R. Mapes, Republican.
Michigan, ranking minority mem-
ber of the Rules Committee, an-
nounced just before he went on
the floor that he would fight adop-
tion of the rule. "There is no real
demand for the lending bill,” he
said.
The measure is the companion
Mil to the $1,615,000,000 lending
program passed by the Senate last
night
The Senate
figure from Mt
nal $3,060,000,0
Democratic FI
W. Barkley expt
Congress can cor
by Saturday nigh
believed adjourmm
Ween,
to that
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Reports II Duce Losing Curlee Reassures
Grip False, Says Simms Tax Office Staff
Mussolini Far From Being Captive T
Under the Spell of Adolf Hitler Do Work, Keep Job,
By WILLIAM PmLIP SIMMS New City Assessor-
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor Collector I ells Crew
. ROME, Aug. 1.- Reports that Benito Mussolini's grip is weaken- ,
ing, that he has become a "prisoner” in the hands of Hitler, and I Walter Curlee assumed his
that a small group around him is entirely under the spell of Berlin, duties as city tax assessor-collec-
are utterly without foundation, according to those in the know. |tor today, succeeding W. B. Hol-
In a swing around Europe during the last two months 1 have land, who was discharged July 19.
frequently heard the view express-
possible "by nextat
least.”
Barkley said that so many
technical details remained to be
cleaned up, in addition to the
major tasks, that it would bo un-
likely if the Senate and House
could get away from Washington
this week-end.
The Senate passed its drastical-
ly-reduced Mil shortly after 6
p. m. last night. The vote, 52
to 28, came after five days, in-
cluding four night sessions of de-
bate on a bill that was but a
shadow of the original program
proposed by Mr. Roosevelt. In ef-
fect, it was little more than a
farm-aid measure, allocations for
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ed that II Duce is letting down,
that he is depending more and
more on his lieutenants, and that
Strikers List
he let himself be finessed—partly «is In s i
by Hitler, partly by his own en- WOPCT Scale
tourage—into a military alliance TTUOL OUANO
with Germany which he never saw
until it was signed, sealed and de-
livered.
Investigation in Rome reveals
an entirely different picture. The
most competent observers agree
that one man’s word is still law
in Italy, and that man is Musso-
lini. Popular loyalty to him is
still overwhelming.
That the alliance makes Italy
a German vassal, or compels her
to march whether she wants to
or not, is not borne out by an-
alysis.
On high Central European au-
thority I can state positively that
the annexation of Austria came
as a nasty surprise to II Duce,
but the circumstances were such
that he could do nothing about it.
To have objected would have end-
ed instantly the entente with Ger-
New Trouble Feared
At Fisher Company,
Scene of Rioting
By United Press.
CLEVELAND. Aug. 1. — The
United Automobile Workers Un-
ion (CIO) today issued a list of
27 men whom they identified as
the “worst scabs” in their strike
against the Fisher Body Co.
Two hundred heavily-armed po-
lice, fearful that violence might
follow issuance of the names, pa-
trolled the non-strikers’ homes.
Four hundred fifty police and
30 firemen fought 3000 strikers
and sympathizers yesterday. Near-
ly 100 persons were injured by
James Frierson
Claimed by Death
His first official act was to call
the tax office employes together
and promise a continuation of the
same staff in return for the co-
operation of each member.
1 “No tax office employe need
| have any fear of losing his job as
long as he continues to do the job Official Of Traders
assigned to him,” Mr. Curlee told a iraceri
, his staff.
City Secretary Birdsong ad-
| ministered the oath.
Mr. Curlee plunged immediate-
. ly into his job as a member of
the Tax Equalization Board, al-
ready in session, taking the seat
filled by W. C. Hoffman since
Mr. Holland’s dismissal.
Mr. Hoffman, former outside
collector, has been acting head of
the department, pending the date
set for Mr. Curlee to take over.
Today, Mr. Hoffman moved to a
desk in the outer office where he
will serve as assistant assessor-
collector, a new position created
last week by City Council at
$250-a-month salary.
Oil Mill Co. Succumbs
Af Residence Here
James W S. Frierson, secre-
tary-treasurer of Traders Oil Mill
Co., died suddenly early today at
his home, 510 S. Ballinger. He
was M.
Born in New Orleans, La., Mr.
Frierson began his career in the
cotton seed and oil business about
45 years ago as office boy with
the old American Cotton Mill Co.
in Houston. He was later trans-
ferred to Seguin, to Hearne and
later to Denison. He came here 35
a years ago with the Mutual Cotton
Seed and Oil Mill.
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Boy Kills Father
Because He Drank
By United Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.—James Mc-
Hugh, 24, a painter’s son, told po-
lice he struck the blow which re-
sulted in the death of his father
early today because "10 years was
long enough" to see one’s mother
beaten by a drunken father.
He said he was awakened last
night by his mother’s screams and
ran to the kitchen where he found
his father, Frank, 46, beating her.
“Dad threw a beer stein at me.”
he said. "Then I hit him with my
tear gas shells, stones and rocks.n v ■
The "worst scab” list was given Bothwell Takkec
every man attending a meeting DUURVO IA AGO UVC
of the union today. Paul E. Miley, ..
UAW organizer and former Fish-TVe Damne Tanau
er Body worker, said it was dis- UlLy 0 ACliS 1 UUdy
tributed so the men could “know *
Made Official in 1918
In 1918, when the Traders Oi
Mill was founded, Mr. Friersor
became secretary-treasurer of the
company, and served in that ca
pacity since with the exception of
a few years when he was con
nected with the Coleman Linter
who they are. Sam H Bothwell established . Co. .
Strikers at a “strategy meeting".. ’ established a A graduate of the University"
agreed to abide by Safety Direc- residence in Fort Worth today and of Tennessee, Mr. Frierson wastry
tor Eliot Ness "riot zone” order, prepared to be sworn in this aft-reared in Knoxville, Tenn. Hel,
but Miley said they would protest ernoon as city manager succeed- married Mabel Wolfe of Denisona
it in every peaceable way possible ing Dudley L Lewis in 1904.
1 Arriving withens family last Funeral Due Tomorrow . 1
night from Sweetwater, Mr.’Both. . He is survived by his wife: E
well spent the morning on house, son, J. w. inerwon st OFY
- P A Km Worth; a daughter, Mrs. Jack,”
st his home, 2012 Langston, Beaumont and
brothers, A. P. and L. W. Frier-T'a
son, Knoxville, Tenn. 4 h
Funeral services will be con-ie"
ducted at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow
by Rev. James F. Hardie and Rev.
Sherwood Clayton at Robertson-
Mueller-Harper Funeral Temple.
Burial will he in Greenwood
Cemetery. Active pallbearers will
be William Parker, James Parker,
Robert Snakard, Ashley Wynn, H.
C. Schreiber and T. J. Harrell
Honorary pallbearers will be B.
--------------pesto „, larrmau M. Davenport, A. 0. Head, J. F. .
County, today left cooler weather Barcroft, George W. Parker, Fred 1
in their wake. ( Hammond, F, A Snakard. G A.
It will continue tonight and to-Garrets on, W. G. Harrison, i
morrow, with the maximum near Charles McCrary, T. A. Cornelius,
94 degrees. Weatherman Paul S. H. Hudgins, O. J. Norwood, R.
Cook's forecast says. Skies will W. Morris, John Howard, C. W.
be partly cloudy. Highest tem-MeMath, L. C. McClung, T L
perature yesterday was 94, this Thomas G. C. MoMath and W. L.__4.
morning’s low, 74. ■ Coleman.
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Gable Sorry He Had
To Capture Youth
VAN NYS, Cal., Aug. 1 —Clark
Gable said today he was "sorry"
he had to capture a burglar who
had invaded Gable’s home.
Gable reported to police yester-
day that he had caught and dis-
i hold details _
Ward Parkway.
George Kemble, assistant city
attorney, relinquished his duties
yesterday as acting manager.
Mr. Bothwell was to take over
his $10,000-a-year job shortly af-
ter noon.
Nearby Rains Keep
Temperatures Down
Week-end rains, which covered
armed William J. Broski, 18, after south and west parts of Tarrant
the Polish immigrant boy entered -
the home of Gable. Carole Lom-
bard, Gable’s bride, had left for
Both the son and the mother, work at her motion picture studio
Anna, 46, were attempting to re-when Gable found Broski in the
vive McHugh when police ar- house, brandishing a pistol from
rived. Both agreed he was a good a collection of guns Gable keeps,
husband and father when not
drinking.
flat and knocked him down. He
must have hit his head when he
fell.”
The boy was turned over to
police.
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