The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 193, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1939 Page: 1 of 14
fourteen pages : ill. ; page 22 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
100
10, 1809
Ne w
to Go
ICTUREB
i Hardys Ride
Rooney, Ann
awis Stone, at
:06, 5:54, 6:42,
p. m.; midnight
Conquest,” Rich-
Patrick.
■ "The Story of
" Don Ameche,
Loretta Young,
4:03, 6:04, 8:06
SCRIPPS-HOWARD
The Fort Wort]
Local Forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow.
VOL. 18, NO. 193
G-Men Begin
Pr
Mass
3
Fort Worth Gets Golf Champion—
Betty Jameson Puts Aside
Clubs—During Office Hours
Press
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1939
I Is Urged
Leave Loan
HOME
EDITION
PRICE THREE CENTS
Eagle and the
c March, Cary
akie, at 11:59,
, 6:43, 8:24 and
kleberry Finn,"
Fast and Loose,”
mory, Rosalind
i for the Mem-
s, Shirley Roas.
Gangster’s Boy,”
Murder Ring
; TO MOTHER
UR FLORIST
Arson, Terrorism
Also Charged;Another
Suspect Arrested
By United Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—J.
Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
will come to Philadelphia this
week ’with G-men to aid in the
mass murder for insurance case
investigation, it was learned to-
day.
The G-men will operate on
cases involving two or more
states, it was said at the office
of Dist. Atty. Charles F. Kelley.
Arson and terrorism were add-
ed today to the mounting list of
crimes charged to the syndicate.
While authorities sought to
piece together the frenzied tirades
of accusation the 24 prisoners al-
(Turn to Page 8)
Statute Intact
Better Business Bureau
Says Loan Sharks’
Victims Need Help
The Fort Worth Better Business
Bureau today sharply opposed
1 amending the city’s small loan or-
linance, in a letter sent by James.
L. Pritchett, bureau manager, to
$ Mayor Harrell and Council.
"This bureau receives many
complaints from Fort Worth citi-
zens who are in the clutches ol
unconscionable loan sharks,” Mr.
Pritchett said. ,
Loan companies have said
they are willing to pay a license
fee of $50 a year instead of $15,
in exchange for an amendment
prohibiting city officials from
inspecting the books of personal
loan companies except on com-
plaints.
"The Bureau realizes," . Mr.
(Turn to Page 8)
PEACE HOPES RAISED AS
ITALY’S STAND WEAKENED
Death of Sparks Is Mourned By
City's Financial, Civic Leaders
the Quality
e Cream!
or All!
S
H STORES:
FH MAIN
BELKNAP
LANCASTER
ROSEDALE
WAY
ONITE!
NTGOMERY
RUSSELLN
il Loose”
HCOMBER”
Only!
1 Comedian!
IOPE
the Memory”
has. Butterworth
nd—George Brent
THE NAVY’
SITY
ds Tonite!
O’KEEFE
PARKER
p O’Conner"
MARCH In
WINDS”
150 Fort Worthers
To Board Train
For WTCC Session
Lower Freight Rates,
Conservation of Soil,
Water To Be Topics
One hundred and fifty Fort
Worth business leaders were dust-
ing off 10 gallon hats and getting
out traveling bags today for .the
special train to Abilene and the
West Texas Chamber of Com-
merce Convention tomorrow.
A mixture of colorful showman-
ship and the serious business of
fighting for fair freight rates and
increased soil and water conserva-
tion will be the fare for delegates,
with Fort Worthers in the thick
of the meeting.
Convention officials predicted
the 21st annual meeting would be-
come a milestone in the battle for
lower freight rates, which has
gained tremendous momentum
over the state in recent months.
Foresees Victory
Ed Byars, head of the local
Chamber of Commerce freight bu-
reau, said this morning that the
fight can have only one result if
it continues at its present pace.
"With West Texas carrying the
spear head, other southern states
will join in and the result will be
action by Congress to get the In-
tersate Commerce Commission
busy on rate revisions,” he said.
When the special train pulls out
of the T. A P. Station at 6 a. m.
one of the largest Fort Worth
delegations ever to attend a West
Texas meeting will be aboard.
Local reservations for the train
junket Jumped to 140 over the
week-end, and the goal of 150
was expected to be reached easily
today, Campbell Smith, chairman
of.the "On to Abilene" committee,
reported.
Miss Covey Will Go
Included in the group will be
the 33 - piece Texas Christian
Horned Frog Band and Mary
Paige Covey, former Casa Manana
show girl, who will pin large Fort
Worth identification emblems on
the backs of delegates. More
than 200. ‘convention badges were
available at the Chamber, not only
for those planning “to ride the
train but also for the large group
going by automobile. Cost of the
registration fee badges is includ-
(Turn to Page 8)
Betty Jameson
But New Job Will Not Interfere With State
Titleholder’s Chances For National Crown
By LEE ROY MANUEL
Betty Jameson is a very polite and well-bred young lady.
She shuddered only slightly when we told her we used a five iron
to get out of sand traps.
And when we told of that eagle we should have had (only we
three-putted) she looked far away and nodded.
Yup. She should go far in the ♦—---------
insurance business.
The 20-year-old girl, holder of
four state and one southern wom-
en's championships, put aside her
clubs—during working hours—to-
day for a brief case and her first
day on a new job.
Moves To City
The hew role, that of insurance
saleswoman, brings her to Fort
Worth to live. She lived formerly
in Dallas and San Antonio.
But that won't be the end of
tournament golf for Betty. She
has her eye on several tourna-
ments. particularly the - National
next August in Noroton, Conn.
It is said that Miss Jameson,
when very, very young used a
niblick for a teething ring. It
was in Dallas. She can't under-
stand why she wanted so very
much to play golf. Her father
was just a casual week-end golf-
er like the rest of us.
Played With Fireman
in fact, , she tells you she play-
ed her first round with a Dallas
fireman after riding the street
car to the course. She used rent-
ed clubs.
Betty's first week-end as a
Fort Worther wasn’t eventful. Her
rounds at River Crest and Colonial
Hills were just "fair” she says.
But a satisfactory round for Bet-
ty has to be in the very low sev-
enties.
In the meantime, she’s out to
sell that, first policy. But Rus-
sell Pearson, her new boss, will
make sure that the job doesn't
dim her chances for a national
championship.
If Betty can sell insurance on
ths golf course, so much the bet-
ter, he assured her. *
antee of Glory-
IT RULE THE SNY
WAS TO FLY THEM!
Cadets Pick Six
Denton Beauties
DENTON, May 15. — The six
beauties of Texas State College
for Women, chosen by Texas A.
A M. cadets, were announced at
the annual senior formal dance
Saturday night.
They are Misses Margie Smith,
senior from Llano; Doris Harrison,
freshman from Tuckerman, Ark.;
Naomi Boutwell, sophomore from
Terrell; Edith Eppright, senior
from Charlotte; Elsie Black, jun-
ior from Hallsville, and Corinne
Zimmerly, junior from Dallas.
TO SHOW R.O.T.C. FILM
„ Movie films of last summer's
R.O.T.C. camp at Mineral Wells
will be reeled off today at 7:30
p.m. in a free public showing at
W. C. Stripling Junior High
School, R.O.T.C. officials an-
nounced. ,
House Won’t Ask
For O’Daniel Aid
Votes Against Seeking
Governor’s Support
Statutory Tax Plan
By United Press. ,
AUSTIN, May 15- By the mar-
gin of only four votes, the House
refused today to request Governor
O'Daniel "to change his mind”
and support a statutory tax pro-
gram for financing social secur-
ity.
Rep. R. H. Reaves of Blackwell
said that the governor, "pitching"
for the sales tax constitutional
amendment, "has been unable to
get the other side out.” He sug-
gested that O'Daniel, whom
Reaves pointed out campaigned on
an anti-sales tax platform, use his
influence and his Sunday morning
radio broadcasts to seek passage
of luxury taxes and "reasonable”
natural resource taxes.
53 to 49 Vote
Vote against the resolution was
53 to 49. Reaves said that the
resolution was not intended as
criticism of the governor or legis-
lators supporting the sales tax,
but he believed O'Daniel could
“take the lead” and insure pas-
sage of statutory taxes.
Rep. Bailev Ragsdale of Croc-
kettmeanwhile circulated copies
of a substitute constitutional
amendment which he intends to
offer when the Senate-passed
sales-natural resource tax resolu-
tion comes up for another House
vote.
4 Per Cent Tax
It authorizes the legislature to
levy a four per cent sales tax,
with 25 per cent to be used for
(Turn to Page 1F)
U. S. Victor In
Stockyards Case
High Court Sets
Aside Order to
Release K. C. Fees
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, May 15.—The
Federal Government today- won a
major victory .in the prolonged
legal fight over rates proposed
for cattle handling at the Kansas
City Stockyards when the Su-
Turkey’s Pledge
To Britain Seen
As Aid to Peace
Democracies Gained
Valuable Protection
For Egypt, Poland
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Tur-
key's alignment with the "Stop
Hitler" bloc, led by Great Britain
and France, may prove to be the
turning point in the frantic effort
to save the peace of Europe.
-Coupled with Poland's stone
wall stand on the Baltic, Turkey's
decision to hold the Black Sea-
DardarieUes - eastern Mediterran-
ean flank is unquestionably the
biggest blow yet suffered by the
Italo-German alliance.
It was an especially severe blow
to Italy. If there is a general
European war, Italy’s job at the
southern end of the axis will be
vastly more difficult and .danger-
ous than ever before. Germany
may pull her in by attacking
Danzig or Poland, but Italy can
scarcely relish the role she would
have to play.
Turkey is the key to the whole
eastern end of the Mediterranean,
the Black Sea, southern Russia
and the back door to the Balkans.
She has therefore made the de-
fense,of Egypt and Suez much
simplier.
As long as Turkey and Greece
hold out, supplies can reach Ru-
mania and even Poland via the
Black Sea. The same applies to
the Soviet Union—if she finally
decides to cast her lot with the
anti-aggression powers.
Aids Egypt
Without Turkey, the Italian
Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean
would have proved extremely
dangerous for Britain, France,
Greece and Egypt. Rhodes and
preme Court set aside a lower Leros, some 350 miles to
court decree calling for immediate
distribution of $586,000 fees fm-
the
north of Egypt, are marvelous
bases from which to launch air-
THE WEATHER
IADe HAVILLAND
* Melugh . John Litel
or len " Henry O’Neill
MONDAY
L I
FORT WORTH AND VICINITY-
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday;
minimum temperature tonight 60 to 65
degrees.
WEST TEXAS—Generally fair to-
night and Tuesday.------—-—
COMPARATIVE TEMPERATURES.
Time— YearAgo Yes day Today
12 Midnight .....64 59 64
2 a. m........, 63 58 60
4 a m. ........ 63 58 58
6 a. m. ........ 63.......57-----56..
.7 a. m. ... .64 5959
Sa m.........66 63 66
9 a. m. ........ 69 65 70
10 a. m. ....... 71 67 7
11 a m.........74 70 '
12 Noon .........76 73
C. Y. Rone Jr. Heads
Embalmers’ District t
A Fort Worth man, C. Y. Rone
Jr., is the new chairman of Dis-
trict 10 of the National Selected
Embalmers Assn. He was elected
at the close of the association's
annual meeting in Tulsa yester-
day- —
Group 10 includes Texas, Louis-
iana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Mr. Rone is associated with the
Harveson & Cole - Fune ra 1 Home.
pounded during the litigation.
The Western Missouri Federal
District Court ordered distribution
of the $588,000 to cattle handlers
at the yards following invalida-
tion of the rate order, proposed
by Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, by the high
tribunal last April.
Challenged By Government
The Government challenged the
distribution decree on grounda
that it should be afforded an op-
portunity to correct procedural
deficiencies which resulted in in-
validation of the order. This then
might afford opportunity to re-
fund the fees to stockmen instead
of commission handlers.
Widespread public attention was
attracted to the April, 1938, Su-
preme Court decision invalidating
the rate order because it contain-
ed an apparent warning to all
quasi-judicial administration agen-
cies that they must comply fully
with the constitutions' due process
clause in their proceedings
against private individuals and
corporations.
Split Five to Three
Today's decision was delivered
by Justice Harlan F. Stone. The
court split 5, to 3 on the case,
with Justice Stanley F. Reed not
participating and Justices James
(Turn to Page 11)
raids. Now they are blanketed by
Turkey.
Should Germany try to impress
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in a war
against Rumania and Poland, Tur-
key and Greece could attack those
countries from their bases on the
Aegean and the Bosporus. There-
fore they will be less willing to
march.
Feared Sudden Attack
Britain has long been afraid of
a sudden Italian attack against
Egypt. Ialy is known to have
nearly 100.000 troops in Lybia.
Counting from 40.000 to 50,000
needed elsewhere in the colony,
she cold still muster approximate-
(Turn to Page 8)
Revised Barbers’ Bill
Goes to Governor
By United Press.
AUSTIN. May 15— The barbers’
price-fixing bill was sent to
Governor O'Daniel today-for the
second time, after the Senate
adopted a conference committee
report on it.
Atty. Gen. Gerald C. Mann first
ruled, on inquiry from the gov-
ernor, that the bill’ was unconsti-
tutional in delegating power— to
approve prices to the state board
of barber examiners.
Relatives Are Sought
. Efforts were being made today
to locate relatives of W. H. Sau-
niers, who died in a local hospital
yesterday.
Mr. Sauniers, 59, a WPA car-
4 penter, lived on Rt. 2. The body
. is at Robertson-Mueller-Harper
41 Funeral Home.
Funeral To Be Today
For President of
First National Bank
Fort Worth civic, financial and
industrial leaders today prepared
to join in a tribute to John N.
Sparks, prominent banker, whose
funeral was scheduled at 3 p. m.
in First Christian Church.
Mr. Sparks, financier and civic
leader, whose career led him to the
presidency of First National Bank,
died Saturday night after a heart
attack.
The Chamber of Commerce was
to close its offices at 2:45 p. m.
First National Bank and the Ag-
ricultural Livestock Finance Corp.,
with which Mr. Sparks was asso-
ciated, were closed for the day.
2 Ministers Officiate
Two ministers closely associat-
ed with the Sparks family were to
conduct the services. Rev. L. D.
Anderson, pastor of the church,
officiated at the funeral of Mr.
Sparks’ mother several years ago.
and at services for other relatives.
Rev. James K. Thompson, pas-
tor of First Presbyterian Church
and close friend of Mr. Sparks,
was to join Dr. Anderson in lead-
John N. Sparks
ing the services. Burial was to
be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Ten officers of the bank will be
pallbearers: R., M. Bowen, R. C.
Martin, W. H. Wallerich, F. W.
Powell, 5. G. Parker, J. B. Hamil-
C of C, Other Offices
To Close In Tribute
To Prominent Citizen
ton. Champ Clark, F. A. Rogers,
T. E. Graham and P. L. Hamilton.
Suffered Heart Ailment.
Mr. Sparks, 58, had been suffer-
ing from a heart ailment since an
attack of influenza a year ago.
Last Thursday he was ill when he
left the bank. He remained at
home Friday and Saturday. Death
came at 10:15 p. in., caused by a
heart clot, physicians said.
The body was returned from
Harveson A Cole Funeral Home to
the Sparks residence, 1215 Eliza-
beth Blvd., where it was to lie in
state.until shortly before the fu-
neral this afternoon.
Mr. Sparks was born in Alva-
rado, and first worked as a postal
clerk there at the age of 12. He
attended school in Alvarado, later
went to Add Ran College in Waco
—now T. C. U.—and then to busi-
ness school in Dallas.
After, two years with a Dallas
produce firm as stenographer and
cashier, Mr. Sparks came to Fort
Worth in 1903 as a stenographer
(Turn to Page 8)
Nazis Angry As
Duce Fails To
Back Up Hitler |
ByUNITED PRESS
Europe listened closely to Pre- 1
mier Benito Mussolini’s words to
North Italians today in an effort,
to guess how far he may swing
the totalitarian powers toward
peace.
In general, the Fascist leader
put the emphasis on peace but it
was significant that in a second
speech today he stipulated that
certain European problems—pre-
sumably including Italy’s de- ;
mands against France in the Med-
iterranean — must be solved be-
fore the danger of war can be *
eliminated.
Says Solution Possible
The second speech, made to au-
tomobile workers at Turin, re-
peated the declaration made yes-
terday that there are no European
problems of such magnitude that
they cannot be solved peacefully.
Then, as if he might have gone
too far along the road to concilia-
tion to suit his axis partner. Adolf
Hitler, the Fascist premier de-
clared:
Germans Displeased
“But peace is only possible if
certain problems are solved be-
fore they reach the chronic
stage."
Nazis were not pleased by Mus-
(Turn to Page 8)
Demos Asked If Cattle Raisers Association
Tax Slash Due Sends Answer to Roosevelt
Solons Push ‘Business
Appeasement' Tax
Plan to Showdown ’
By United Press.
WASHINGTON. May 15. — Re-
publican Leader Joseph W Martin
of Massachusetts called on the
Democratic leadership in the
House today to clarify whether
any "deterrent taxes" would be
eliminated by this session of Con-
gress.
He received no definite answer
from Democratic Floor Leader
Samuel Rayburn, but a showdown
conference was scheduled for 2:30
p. m. (Fort Worth time) between
President Roosevelt and legisla-
tive leaders in charge of tax bills.
Battle Royal Due
the
The prospect was that
White House session would re-
sult in a statement of compro-
mise and harmony, to be follow-
ed by a battle royal in Congress
when bills finally are drafted.
Rayburn said that nuisance
taxes raising $1,000,000,000 a year
must be re-enacted, and the cor-
a FDR's Corned Beef Statement Stirs Battle
Reaching From Plains to Argentina
With protests from the rank and file of livestock men continuing
to pour in at headquarters of the Texas & Southwestern Cattle
Raisers Assn. here, the organization today made its formal answer
to President Roosevelt's week-end statement that he favors the
Navy’s buying Argentine canned beef because "it is cheaper and
infinitely better in quality." *--:—-—:--------------
See. Henry Bell announced that . . —
the following message, over the right Spots
signature of President Joe Sneed D. IgI PUS
of Amarillo, has been sent to all
Bright Spots
Harrell Calls
Night Session
the congressmen from Texas:
“The Texas' and Southwestern
Cattle Raisers Assn, protests the
action of the President in pur-
chasing the meat or any other
products from a foreign country
for the Army and Navy. We are
heartily in accord with that part
of the agricultural bill providing
that supplies be bought in the
United States for the Army and
Navy.”
Meantime, as Argentine news-
papers requested the United Press
to furnish all editorial comment
(Turn to Psge 8)
poration taxes which expire Dec..
31 and bring in $250,000,000 a
year.
-Rayburn said that "there is not
a tax on the statute books, local,
state or federal, that is not a
deterrent to capital in some re-
spects," making the point that all
taxes were disliked.
Veto Looms Ahead
Senate Republicans and con-
servative Democrats are determin-
ed upon tax reform but are aware
they probably would not be able
to overcome a veto.
In the background was the
$212,000,000 of unbudgeted farm
subsidies voted last year and
$338,000,000 approved by the Sen-
ate this year and now awaiting
House action. Mr. Roosevelt was
promised new revenue to cover
last year's appropriation but
never got it.
The Administration is confront-
ed now with the alternative of de-
feating the $338,000,000 grant in
the House this month or of going
to Congress with another hope-
less plea for compensation.
May Refuse New Levies
It was understood the Congress-
ional spokesmen are prepared to:
1. Refuse to agree to new tax
levies to pay for unbudgeted farm
subsidies aggregating $550,000,-
,000.
2. Insist that the corporation
surplus tax be abandoned.
3. Seek a compromise basis
upon which Mr Roosevelt could
accept tax revision without losing
political face. '
Franks’ Uncle Held
As Aid In Slaying ,
By United Press.
WAXAHACHIE, Tex., May 15.
—Ed Franks of Venus, Tex., uncle
of Burton Franks, charged with
robbery of the First State Bank
of Maypearl and the slaying of
the bank president, W. D. Wile-
mon, was held in an unnamed
jail today.
Ellis County authorities reveal-
ed the uncle's arrest last night
and said he had been charged
with being an accessory to the
In the News
NEW YORK- Brenda Frazier,
society glamor girl, who has an
$8,000,000 fortune, isn't interested
in an offer of $500,000 to go into
the movies. Politely but firmly,
she said "no” to a suggestion of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that she
appear in five pictures at $100,000
each. Louis B. Mayer telephoned,
telegraphed and sent an agent to
communicate,with her personally
in an. effort to persuade her to
change her mind.
* * *
LIMA, Peru.—Medical au-
thorities today investigated the
case of Lina Medina, an Indian
girl said by physicians at the
maternity hospital to have giv-
en birth to a son at the sage of
five. The child, born Sunday,
weighed 5% pounds. Doctors
said both the mother and the
child were doing well. Physi-
cians said she was still cutting
her second set of teeth. Be-
fore the birth Lina weighed 66
pounds. She is a little less than
3 1-2 feet tall. The baby was
delivered by a caesarian opera-
tion. The girl became pregnant
when she was four years and 11
months old, physicians said.
Council to Seek
Economy Agreement
Sans Dismissals
An attempt to co-ordinate the ]
divergent views of City Council-,.
men on the proposed municipal
economy program will he made ’
at a special Council session to-,
morrow night, Mayor Harrell said
today in calling the meeting.
“All of the members have ex-
pressed themselves on the situa-
tion since my return from New
Orleans, and- we hope to incor- |
porate these into a single plan,
so as to eliminate the thought j
of reducing personnel, if possible,”
the Mayor said.- .
The meeting is set for 7 p. m.
in the Council conference cham-e
ber at City Hall. Mayor Har-
rells' statement came on the day
which previously had been set for
the dismissal of 58 city employes.
Council backed up on the re- ‘
trenchment order at last Wed-
nesday’s open meeting, postponing,
the effective date of the econ-r
omies until June 1. At a night
session following the reversal,
members were divided in two .
camps on the question of whether
to reduce personnel or seek new
sources of revenue.
slaying of Wllemon.
It also was announced that Bur-
ton Franks would go to trial May
22 for the murder of Wllemon,
who was shot when, the youth,
an ex-convict, allegedly took $1572
from the teller’s cage last Wed-
nesday. He was arrested the fol-
lowing day in a Denison rooming
house.
ALL OF MAYPEARL
LOOT IS RECOVERED
ST. JOSEPH, Mo.—Jerry Jen-
sen’s ears were still a little red
today, but otherwise there were
no serious results from the 90
minutes he spent with an empty
tin lard can jammed securely on
his head. Jerry, who is two years
old, plunked the gallon bucket on
his head and then couldn’t remove
DENISON, May 15 —• Sheriff
Joe Roy of Ellis County said to-
day that all of the $1500 stolen
from the First State Bank of
Maypearl had been recovered.
He said that Burton Franks led
it. Neither could his grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Frank Nelson. The
neighbors she called in offered
plenty of advice, but none was
practical. Meanwhile Jerry was
screaming to be released. The can
eventually slipped off as easily as
it went on.
him to a spot in Bonham, where
he had buried about $1000 in a
fruit jar. The money was near a
barn at the home of the convict's
mother. Officers who arrested
Franks in a rooming house here
last week found $558 in a pillow
case under his pillow.
Heywood’s Life Is Gladdened—He Gets Elliott Entire
By HEYWOOD BROUN
- STAMFORD, Conn., May 15.-
In the air was a threat of rain.
My own affairs were clouded and
my heart was heavy. A friendly
hen addled up for corn, and I
cursed her savagely, although she
had just laid an egg and done
no harm whatsoever. But then
the postman rang twice, and on
top of the seed catalogues, and
night club advertisements he
brought me a letter which made
my entire day.
It may even have changed my
whole life. For now, twice a
week, I have something to which
I can look forward. At the top
of the missive was a chaste de-
sign in blue and gold reading
"Texas State Network, Inc.—El-
liott Roosevelt, President."
The name of the vice president
below had been purged with a pen
stroke. From the emblem T. S. N.
forked lightning was shooting in
all directions. But it was less
crackling and fearsome than the
announcement contained on: the
first page—"to avoid any mis-
terpretation that might come to
you through necessarily abbreviat-
ed—wire dispatches, the Texas
State Network in the future will
mail you copies of Mr. Elliott
Roosevelt’s semi- weekly radio
commentaries.”
A house guest leaned out from
a second-story window to ask why
I cavorted on the lawn and sang
with such gaiety and—abandon.
I called to him. “Good News! Good
News!" I have been promised Mr.
Elliott Roosevelt in the original.
Twice every week I am to get
Elliott entire. Until that moment
I had not dreamed that these
spare-room radio 1 chats were
premeditated. I thought the young
man tossed them off in his stride,
but it seems that they are set
down coolly and after consulta-
tion,' =-=-----==-
— Unfortunately, Mr.+E. Roosevelt
is correct, and it will not be pos-
sible to reproduce his address in
full, -even though I -find blood
stains on the copy paper every
time I set down a dot to indicate
an elision. This is as much as
* • •
Susie, the ring - tailed caco-
mixee at Forest Park Zoo, took
Mother's Day seriously. Shortly
before noon yesterday she took
time off to give birth to trip-
lets, a year and a day after
her famed leap off a courthouse
ledge. The ring-tailed cat, cen-
tral figure in a four-day mys-
tery before her capture, Is
mated to Tom, veteran Zoo
cacomixee. Mother’s Day at
the Zoo saw the arrival from
Africa of Alex 111, an Arabian
graycape baboon, and Abdul, a
mandrill, baboon, Saturday the
Zoo received two new kangaroos
and a number of possums.
HOLLYWOOD, May 15.—Rob-
Ernie Makes
'Fairways'
By Airways |
In the' style of "tomorrow,'* |
Ernie Pyle, Press roving reporter
is covering the two great World’s 1
Fairs.
After spending several days in
San Francisco, he hopped a plans ■
and was in New York "overnight.”
"It was just like going to bed
in San Francisco and waking up
in New York,” he grinned as he
set out to cover the $157,000,000
extravaganza.
Within a few days, The Press
will begin publishing Ernie’s
series of articles describing what 1
the fairs offer.
Ernie sees things that others |
miss—and that’s why he. is the |
country’s greatest roving reporter.
And through his articles, you'll
see the World's Fairs in a dif-
ferent light-through the eyes of !
a writer who will always consider ]
himself a country boy.
Watch for them SOON in The /
Press.
U. S. States Position
On Economic Quarrel
By United Press.
WASHINGTON, May 15.Offi- J
rials expressed belief today that i
the United States would be will-
ingto —participate in an interna-
tional economic conference only
on condition that Europe first re-
moved threats of war by settling
military and political quarrels. s
This was their reaction to sug-
gestions that President Roosevelt
might make a new European
peace move by seeking to initiate
a world economic conference.
the house affords:— HOLLYWOOD, May 15. Rob-
"Good evening ladies and gen-lert Taxlor, having taken unto
tlemen. Along about this time himself « bride—the beauteous
every Monday and Friday evening Barbara Stanwyck hoped today .. -..., .....___-----..
your commentator goes on the air that he ’at last had put an end “made out of whole cloth” a New
over the twenty-three stations of to the ordeal he has been subject- York Times Washington dispatch -
the Texas State Network to bring ed to by feminine admirers, which said Mr. Roosevelt might,
you hits or comment and politicals This friends believed that hisimake a new peace move by pro
gossip, gathered here and there wedding would stop the siege of posing an economic conference if
through observation, reading and mass hysteria which caused fem- European conditions appeared ra-
- ---------(Turn to Page 8)-------------------------—Turn to Page B).....vorable._____________.
At the White House Secretary
Stephen T. Early characterized as
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Weaver, Don E. The Fort Worth Press (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 193, Ed. 1 Monday, May 15, 1939, newspaper, May 15, 1939; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1688882/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fort Worth Public Library.