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FORT WORTH, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1939
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NEW MANAGER
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BUDGET TASK
Man Who Weds Live Alone
And Like It’ Author Gets
The Kidding He Expected
Premier Says CALLS MEASURE TO BAN
Britain Fully
Sam H. Bothwell Says Employes Need
Not Fear Loss of Jobs; Department
Heads to Solve Personnel Problems •
By ALLAN CARNEY
A forceful man with positive ideas about public administra-
tion and the city manager form of government rolled up his
sleeves today and plunged into his first job of making Fort
Worth’s municipal budget for a new fiscal year.
City Manager Sam H. Bothwell means business. He’s confi-
dent, but not cocksure.
Ready For War
Chamberlain Urges
Commons to Adjourn;
Shipbuilding Planned
By United Press. L
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Great Brit-
ain "is now ready for any emer-
gency,” Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain declared today in
moving adjournment of the House
of Commons from Aug. 4 to
Oct. 3.
In hia assurance that the Gov-
ernment is fully prepared if war
should come, Chamberlain added'
Facing an already overdrawn general fund and mounting mu-
----------------------------------------nicipal costs, Mr. Bothwell knows
that he's taken on a big job.
U. S. Displays
. Air Strength
Might of Military
Aviation Demonstrated
X By Army at Dayton
By United Press.
WRIGHT FIELD, DAYTON, O.,
Aug. 2.—The Army and Navy
massed a thundering display of
aircraft today in celebration of
the 30th anniversary of the pur-
chase of the first military airplane
by the United States.
The celebration was nation-wide
but centered here, where a single
generation ago, the Wright broth-
ers launched the airplane industry
as a sideline to their bicycle re-
pair shop. There were 300 Gov-
ernment officials here with nine
% foreign military attaches as
guests..
The featured exhibits will be the
“But I also know all the
problems can't be solved over-
night," he told newsmen. "I'm
not that big."
The new Manager told newsmen
that he intends to follow the
City Charter provisions, which
give him full control over city
administrative matters.
Department heads, he said, will
be left free to solve their per-
sonnel problems, and no city em-
ploye need worry about losing his
post so long as he is doing his
job well.
“I'm not interested in anything
but results,” he declared.
Mr. Bothwell said that he has
made no attempt to bring anyone
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Author Marjorie Hillis (left) insists she really did “Live Alone
and Like It"—until romance caught up with her and chain mer-
chant Thomas H. Roulston (right). They were married yesterday.
Inset: a paragraph from Miss Hillis’ “textbook on spinsterhood.”
U. S. EMPLOYEES FROM
POLITICS A ‘GOOD STEP’
By UNITED PRESS
Today’s development in Washington included: A
President Roosevelt signs the Hatch bill which removes all but a handful of federal em-
ployes from politics. He accompanies his action with a message to Congress urging that the
measure be made more specific and calling it a step in the right direction. He also calls on Con-
gress at its next session to include state and local employes under the act.
House leaders, in their rush toward adjournment, junk the $800,000,000 housing proposal.
House Rules Committee Chairman Sabath denounces reactionaries for killing the President’s
lending bill and calls on Roosevelt to run for a third term, to save “the achievements of the last
eight years.". •
the customary provisions that the onA Asnye
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it.
Winston Churchill, dissident
Conservative, came out against
Chamberlain's proposal to ad-
journ. He warned that the Euro-
pean situation now is more grave
than during the 1038 Czechoslo-
vak crisis.
Germany is massing men on the
Polish frontier and "every prepa-
ration is being made for a speedy
advance,” he declared in support-
ing opposition demands that Par-
liament remain in session to make
certain that the cabinet maintains
a firm front against aggression
and does not resort to “another
Munich.”
The Liberals and Laborites pre-
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Housing Plan
Is Junked
Hatch Bill Author
Has Visited Here
U. S. ‘AIRMADA’ ROARS
OVER FORT WORTH.
Twenty-one U. S. Army
planes from Kelly Field, San
Antonio, roared over Fort
Worth at noon today as a
part of the Air Corps' anni-
versary celebration.
Headed by three Douglas
bombers, the armada came in
from the south and crossed
I just west of the business dis-
" trict. They turned east over
the stockyards and headed
for Dallas. After re-fueling
at Hensley Field, the planes
* were to pass here again en
route to West Texas.
four-motored flying fortress that
crossed the country from Bur-
hank, Cal., to New York in the
sub-stratosphere yesterday in nine
hours and 14 minutes.
They, as well as the newest
models in pursuit, attack . and
bombing planes— enough of them
to darken the sky—will demon-
strate the progress of aircraft in
war. The first plane bought for
the Army, on Aug. 2, 1909, was a
■ flimsy two-seater vulnerable to
1 rifle fire from the ground. No
" airplane had ever been used in a
battle at that time.
I It was two years later, in the
Italian campaign against the
Turks in Tripoli, that aerial fight-
ing was begun.
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Back From Convention
Mrs. A. C. Twining, 3536
Travis, has returned from San
Jose, Calif., where she attended a
week’s convention of the Rosicru-
cian Order, AMORC. The conven-
tion, largest held by the philo-
sophic order in recent years, Mrs.
1 Twining said, had nearly every
state of the Union and province
of Canada and 12 foreign coun-
tries represented.
Truckers Warned
Against ‘Fraud'
Those Seeking Sunday
Law Loopholes Riding
For Fall, Says Sadler
AUSTIN, Aug. 2.—Dallas truck
line operators who think they
have found a loophole in the Tex-
as Railroad Commissions “re-
member the Sabbath” order
against hired truck operation on
congested highways on Sundays
may find the loop closing and
their necks in the loop. Commis-
sioner Jerry Sadler indicated to-
day. "There's a jail in every coun-
ty in Texas for violators,” he said.
Major Walton D. Hood, chief
enforcement officer, declined to
say what the commission will do.
A Dallas trucker said the ex-
clusion of perishables from the or-
der would make it possible to put
a crate of lettuce In a load of
hardware and keep moving on
Sunday.
The ban applies only to trucks
operating under permits issued by
the commission to common carrier
and special commodity trucks, a
department worker pointed out.
The commission has the right to
revoke the permits.
As a practical demonstration of
what would happen to the crate
of lettuce, it was said, the carrier
attempting to find a "loophole"
would have his permit suspended
and be notified to appear at Aus-
tin and show cause why it should
be reinstated. Meantime he would
have no permit for Sunday or any
other day.
44 Missing At Sea
MANILA, Aug. 2.—Forty-four
persons were missing today after
a motor launch capsized in high
seas, off Cape Capines. Thirty-six
of the 80 persons aboard, passen-
gers and crew, were saved.
Typists to Compete Friday
At Brantley-Draughon’s
Hour Will Be 7:30 P. M., Event Open to Public;
Winner Gets Free Trip to Toronto, Canada
The Press’ typing contest, to select a Fort Worth champion for
a free 16-day trip to Toronto, Canada, will be held Friday at 7:30
p. m. at Brantley-Draughon Business College, 411% Main.
The event will be open to the public.
Friends, relatives and other typing fans are invited to watch the
contestants match their P’s ande---
Q’s for a chance to attend the
Canadian National Exhibition—a
perennial "world’s fair” dating
back to 1794, staged annually at
Exposition in Toronto. He or she
will type two-hours a day, spend-
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Romance Catches Up With Chief Backer of
Spinsterhood, Marjorie Hillis; Her Bride-
groom is a Wealthy Chain Store Merchant
By RUTH MILLETT
Press Special Writer
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—No bridegroom of 1030 has had to take so
much razzing, both public and private, as Thomas H. Roulston who
yesterday married the live-aloners’ chief sponsor, Marjorie Hillis.
Every since she published her first book for the nation's spin-
sters, "Live Alone and Like It," and then followed it up—by way
------------------------------------------—$ of books and lecture platform—
with further advice on how to
get along without a man, charm-
ing Miss Hillis has been the coun-
Teams Campaign
For C-C Members
Winners Will Capture
Treat to Frog-Pony
Game, Losers Paying
Two teams of the Chamber of
Commerce membership committee
took the field today, headed by
R. L. Kenderdine and George Ben-
nett. for a three-month contest.
Group which rounds up the most
new members will be guests of
the losers at the TCU-SMU foot-
ball game In December.
Workers on the Kenderdine
team are C. J. Post, lieutenant;
Frank Jackson, F. L. Motheral,
O. L. Snider, J A. Leddon Sr.,
Guy Crawford, Ross Jordan, Lis-
ton Jackson, Melvin Fault, War-
ren W. Wells and Frank Kinney.
Mr. Bennett’s team includes:
George Scaling, Heutehant; J. A.
McCaul, Ed Ernest, Dudley Hodg-
kins, Judson Baker, Russell Bell,
Reed Sass, L. C. Eastland, L. T.
Martin and Howard Carrell.
Each team member was pre-
sented with a sales kit last nignt
at a Wesbrook Hotel meeting.
try's No. 1 live-aloner.
How is Mr. Roulston, wealthy
president of a chain of grocery
stores, taking the kidding?
Well, he ducks it when he can.
But when he can’t (which ia most
of the time) he says gallantly,
"Now, don't you think I was pret-
ty good to change her mind?”
And then he changes the sub-
ject.
Groom a Real Salesman
an average cost of $1,225,000.
Hour and- place for the Fort
Worth contest were announced as
the deadline for entries passed.
40 Enter Contest
Forty-four young men and
women had registered. They will
meet at 7:30 p. m. Friday at
Brantley - Drauglon, review the
rules, and "have at it.'’
The winner will join a 12-mem-
her American team to meet a
Canadian team in an international
marathon contest at the Canadian
READ THE RULES
Complete rules covering
The Press typing contest
Friday night are printed in
the accompanying story. All
entrants should carefully
study the rules in advance,
and others planning to wit-
ness the contest will be In-
terested in the regulations.
of the exposition, from Aug. 25
Ing the rest of the time as a guest
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New Sewing Room
Funds Allocated
$9,769,896 Set Up For
Texas, $1,500,000
For This District
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The
WPA today allocated $9,769,896 to
Texas for the operation of sewing
room projects.
An allocation of $603,556 more
was earmarked for Texas for the
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Presi-
dent Roosevelt’s House leaders
tossed his $800,000,000 housing
proposal overboard today and
jumped on the bandwagon for ad-
journment.
The action was revealed by
Chairman Adolph J. Sabath. Dem-
ocrat of Illinois, veteran chairman
of the balky House Rules Commit-
tee which has aided the Republi-
can-Democratic coalition in re-
peatedly hamstringing Adminis-
tration proposals.
Attacks House Majority
Sabath coupled his announce-
ment with a bitter attack on the
House majority which yesterday
killed Mr. Roosevelt’s lending pro-
gram. He also called for the Pres-
ident to run for a third term.
The House vote of 103 to 166 to
transportation, distribution and
accounting of surplus food prod-
ucts for the state’s needy.
Blushingly, Miss Hillis admits
that perhaps he is a little pleased
with himself (as what man
wouldn't be) at having sold on
marriage a woman who publicly
admitted she could live alone and
like it.
Miss Hillis is coming in for her
share of kidding, too, even though
it is admittedly a woman's privil-
ege to change her mind.
For her answer Miss Hillis,
looking flustered, protests, “I nev-
er said that living alone was bet-
ter than marriage—only that it
had its compensations.”
Honeymoon Abroad
The couple sails today on the
Normandie to spend August trav-
eling on the continent.
Approximately $1,500,000 will go
to WPA sewing room projects in
Fort Worth's 21-county district
under the $9,769,896 allotment for
Texas announced in Washington,
Major Karl Wallace, district direc-
tor, said here today.
The sum means renewal of cur-
rent sewing room projects which
are due to expire about Sept. 1.
but for the new year all WPA sew-
ing activities in Texas will be con-
sidered as one project for admin-
istration purposes—various units
of the one big project being oper-
ated through the district offices.
The $603,556 for handling sur-
plus food products means renewal
of food projects, which will con-
tinue under the old administrative
set-up, said Major Wallace.
kill the lending program-already
slashed to $1,950,000,000 by a
House committee from the Presi-
dent's original $3,060,000,000 rec-
ommendation — "forces President
Roosevelt to become a candidate
for a third term," Sabath de-
clared.
Denounces Reactionists
"The forces of reaction are
drunk with power,” he said angrily.
"If the President does not become
a candidate for a third term, it
just means that all of the achieve-
ments of the last eight years in
behalf of the common man will be
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Sen. Hatch
T TNITED STATES Senator
U Carl A. Hatch, author
of the congressional bill, to
take politics out of govern-
mental affairs, is an affable,
easy-going New Mexican who
frequently drops in on Fort
Worth between sessions of
the upper house.
His home is in Clovis, and
his last visit to Fort Worth
was during the visit here of
FDR Claims
It Is Vague
And Limited
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. -
President Roosevelt today signed
the precedent-chattering Hatch
bill which removes all but top-
bracket federal officials from pol-
itics for the first time in U. S.
history.
Mr. Roosevelt accompanied his
action with a message to Congress
in which he called the measure a
"step in the right direction,” but
he raised numerous questions of
policy in its application.
He called on Congress at its
next session to consider the pos-
sibility of extending the prohibi-
tions of the Hatch bill to state
and local employes and suggested
that several minor clarifications
might be made in the interest of
more efficient administration.
Mr. Roosevelt declared that
"hundreds" of questions had
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Ft. Worther Is Held
In $1000 Burglary
A 50-year-old Fort Worther and
a 43-year-old Los Angeles com-
panion were held as suspects to-
day in Kansas City in connection
with the burglary of two fash-
ionable homes and the theft of
$1000 in jewelry there.
The Los Angeles man was ar-
rested last night as he walked in
the neighborhood of the burglar-
ies. He reportedly was carrying a
part of the loot.
In White's hotel room the Fort
Worther was arrested. A woman's
fur piece, a revolver and $1000
worth of jewelry were found. The
jewelry was tied in a handker-
chief and hung under the bed
springs.
The Fort Worther said he was
"visiting” the other man, whom
he termed "a good friend.”
Fair Help to Stay
NEW YORK, Aug. 2. Presi-
dent Grover A. Whalen told 1300
employes of the New York
World's Fair today that there
would be no further dismissals for
economy reasons. Whalen said
that the fair season had reached
the halfway mark and that "the
three best months" were yet to
come.
Quickies In
Day's News
NEW YORK, Aug. 2. — Mrs.
IV Evelyn Fonda was back home
alone and under her maiden name
today from a honeymoon in the
South Sea Islands. She left her
husband In Ball, and she thinks
he is still there, "looking at
those women.”
The husband, Harry Fonda, la a
cousin of the movie star, Henry
Fonda.
"No husband," Mrs. Fonda said,
"should ever be taken to Ball on
a honeymoon."
On the steamship President
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Truck of Gasoline
Burns Near Handley
A loaded gasoline truck plunged
off the Fort Worth-Dallas high-
way east of Handley at 5 a. m.
today and burst aflame as the
driver and his two sons scrambled
to safety. T
Flames which destroyed the
truck also burned telephone ca-
bles overhead, disrupting service
between Fort Worth and Dallas
Citizens Rout
Picket Line
Armed Group Will
Prevent Delay On
Colorado Job
By United Press.
GREEN MOUNTAIN DAM.
Colo., Aug. 2. — Contractors re-
sumed work today on the $4,000,-
000 Green Mountain Dam under
the guns of 200 businessmen, sher-
iffs's deputies and "back to work"
laborers, who broke up a picket
line.
Officials of Warner Construc-
tion Co., Chicago, suspended work
on the 84,000,000 Colorado- Big
Thompson diversion project for
three weeks when the American
Federation of Labor called a
strike, said they expected opera-
tions to be normal again within
the next few days.
Businessmen from Kremmling,
Colo., 18 miles southeast of the
dam, organized a 50-car caravan
last night. They drove to the
strike-bound project, enlisted the
aid of sheriff’s deputies and more
than 100 non-striking employes,
and routed the 40 A.F.L. pickets.
Sheriff John Lee of Summitt
for a short time.
The driver, 8. R. Corn, and his
sons, Joe Earl, 11, and Billy Fos-
ter, 13, were treated in Handley the picket line had been broken,
for cuts and bruises. The truck, said he would see "that we hold
property of J. W. Gaddis Oil Co., this camp from now on." He
801 E. Rosedale, was en route to deputized virtually every one of
Fort Worth, the 200 men holding the dam.
County, who took charge after
He
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, with
whom he discussed the gov-
ernmental cotton program
for New Mexico.
Senator Hatch, youngish
for his 50 years, is a native
of Kirwin, Kan., and a grad-
uate Of Cumberland Univer-
"sity. He began the practice
of law in Eldorado, Okla.. In
1012, and the next year mar-
ried Miss Ruth Caviness of
that town.
He moved to Clovis in
1916, became assistant at-
torney general in 1917, and
was judge of the Ninth Ju-
dicial District from 1923 to
1929, after which he resumed
private practice.
He was appointed to the
1. S. Senate in October,
1938, to fill the unexpired
term of Sam G. Bratton, and
was elected for the term
1935-41. A member of the
Methodist Church, a Shriner
and Knight Templar, he is
the father of two children, a
son and a daughter.
New Faces Here
For Casa Stage
Planes Will Bring
Still More Stars
On Thursday
Planes from the East and West
will wing in tomorrow with Casa
Manana's new headliners, to take
the big stage Friday.
Kenney Baker, famed tenor of
screen and Jack Benny’s radio
show, is due from California on a
sleeper plane at 8:30 a. m. An-
other plane, from New York, will
bring in Abe Lyman and his hand
at 7:30 a. m.
Pension Checks Will
Go Out On Time
AUSTIN, Aug. 2.—August’s old
age pension payments will go out
on time. August federal matching
funds already being on hand, the
Texas Old Age Assistance Com-
mission announced today, Pay-
ments will be completed by Aug.
1S.
Rolls will total 118.984 and
checks will total $1,684,000. The
Increase for the month is only
1080 pensioners. This does not In-
clude all who will be added under
the- new liberalizing law. Many of
the applications have yet to be
examined.
Pete—Who Can’t Leave It Alone—Now Has Banker
To Prevent Recourse to the Bottle, But He Slips
By DELBERT WILLIS
DETE is 72 — old enough, you
L might say, to know how to
take care of his money.
But Pete, whose favorite pitfall
is strong drink, can't pass up a
drink when he’s got the price.
So he takes care of his money
by letting somebody else take
care of it. His personal banker
is Justice of the Peace Gua
Brown.
Justice Brown ′ receives Pete's
$18 pension check each month,
He doles the money out to Pete
50 cents at atime-----------
DETE likes this system. He
I knows how long the $18 would
last if it were in his pocket In
one wad.
P’ete’s love of the bottle has
led him to much trouble. It
doesn’t make much difference
what kind of bottle It is, as long
as the alcoholic content is
rather high. It might be hey
rum, vanilla extract, straight
alcohol, bootleg corn, or even
bottled-in-bond.
And once Pete takes a nip, it's
Katie-bar-the-door. Sure as shoot-
ing, Pete will end up in jail.
TTIS police record shows 48 ar- tice Brown and Pete will bow
11 rests for drunkenness, and his head. I
Others of the second "shift" al-
ready are in Fort Worth.
• They include the Gracella Danc-
ers, an adagio quartet, and Em-
mett Oldfield, comedy aerobat
seen with Walter Dere Wahl at
the first Casa Manana show in
1938. Trixie, girl juggler, was
due late today.
State Highway Department em-
ployes will make up a large party
at Casa tomorrow night, when the
current show, starring Frances
Langford and Ray Bolger, will be
seen its last time. State High-
way Commissioners Bobbitt and'
Hines, and Julian Montgomery,
state highway engineer, will head
the highway group. They will
have a barbecue lunch at the home
of J. J. Hurley and a hot dog sup-
per at Hotel Texas before going
to the show.
Show officials today announced
a change in handling of reserva-
tions. These now will be taken
by ’phone at the downtown ticket
office. Seventh and Houston, if
picked up before 1 p. m.
THE W EATHER -
Cloudy 1
LOCAL — Partly!
< cloudy tonight and
Thursday; mi 11 1- J
muni temperature J
tonight near 75 de-9
grees and maxi-,
mum Thursday)
near 94 degrees.
WEST TEXAS I
Partly cloudy to-S
night and Thura-M
day except localii
thundershowers in
southwest portion. N
Barometric Pressure: 29.34,
that doesn't include the ■
times that the officers have let
his head. He can’t look the
many Justice In the eye.
.. . ... What have you got to say,
Pete go on his way because they Pete?” Justice Brown asks,
know he is harmlew. • * *
Pete waits until he Is hungry . ,
to draw on his account from Jus- “T JUST lost control of myself,
tice Brown. Then he'll satisfy 1 Judge. I just drank a little
his hunger with food-with his too much, I guess," Pete stam-
50-cent allotment-and there'll be
nothing left for boose.
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES
Time- YearAgo Yes’day Toda
12 Midnight .....88 78 11
2 a. m."........81 77
4 a. m.........78 76 77
• a. m. ----~ ME “
7 a m.
8 s. m.
9 a. m.
mers.
But occasionally, Pete’s high
resolve will slip a little, and
soon he’s in jail again. Then
they’ll take him up before Jus-
And then Judge Brown sends
him to jail for a couple of days.
After this, Pete will get only
25 cents the next time he ap-
plies for funds. Justice Brown
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4 p.m. ......90 91
Bun rises tomorrow 5:48. sets 1.7.
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