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NO. 98. CORSICANA, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS DUST AND COLD INVADES TEXAS HITLER DEMANDS MILITAR EQ UALITY GUN FOR GUN, MAN FOR MAN AND PLANE FOR PLANEPROGRAM WANTS EQUALITY WITH FRANCE AND SUPERIORITY OVER RUSSIAN ARMS By MELVIN K. WHITELEATHER Associated Press Foreign Staff (Copyright, 1035, Tho Associated Prces.) BERLIN, March high authority stated today that Eeichsfuehrer Hitler demands absolute military equality on a gun- for-gun basis excepting the other European powers. This authority said Hitler told Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary who returned to London this morning, that Germany would be content with "a small percentage of the British navy." Hitler told Sir John, according to this source, he wanted army equality with France, gun for gun, man for man, and airplane for airplane, and intimated he wanted superiority over Russia.

The Reichsfuehrer, the authority said, strongly indicated that "even though France were to reduce armaments greatly, Germany not follow suit until it was certain what Russia would do." It was said that at every turn Sir John found Hitler standing firmly on the foundation stone of the Nazi foreign berechtigung, meaning "equality." Germany's return to the league, Hitler was stated to have said, depended upon whether he judged Germany was being treated as a great nation should be. Treated As Inferior £jnong the Reichsfuehrer's ob- to the leagu; were said to $e- his contention that Germany never had been given equal treatment with France and Great Britain, that the Germans always drew minor assignments while and English handled vital political matters. The authority said that in the lonversations between Hitler and Sir John, the revision of important parts of the Versailles treaty, especially the arms clauses, were regarded "as an accomplished fact" through the Nazis' own action in decreeing c.impulsory military training and the creation of an air force. Treaty Already Revised "The conversations," said this source, "were not held to determine whether the treaty should be revised. They were started from the viewpoint that the treaty already had been revised the.

Germans' unilateral action. The question was See GERMANY, Page 12 Two Indicted On Charge Harboring Raymond Hamilton WICHITA FALLS, March Ralph Smith Fults and Wilford Royce Lynn, alias Royce Lynn, were under federal indictment today charged with conspiracy to harbor and conceal Raymond Hamilton. The presentments, returned here yesterday, charged they aided the death house fugitive at the time of a police ambush from which he barely escaped near McKtn- ney Feb. 24. Lynn was alleged to have transported Fults and two automatic rifles from Fuits' home in McKinney Feb.

21 to a meeting with Hamilton. Fults was alleged to have helped Hamilton shoot his way out of the trap. MOTHERS III THREE RUTHLESS CRIMINALS FREED ONWEDNESDAY MOTHERS BARROW, BONNIE PARKER AND RAY HAMILTON RELEASED DALLAS, March mothers who befriended two of the Southwest's most ruthless marauders, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, were freed today. They finished a thirty-day term apiece for harboring Bonnie and Clyde while the machine-gunning duo fled the law. Mrs.

Cumie Barrow, mother of Clyde; Mrs. Emma Parker, Bonnie's mother, and tight-lipped Mrs. Steve Davis, mother of Ray Hamilton, No. 1 Texas outlaw and fugitive from the state penitentiary death house, were released from the jail at 9 a. m.

today. Mrs. Davis had no message to send her arrant son. She told newspapermen: "I have no message for Ray, and no plans to tell you." Mrs. Davis and Mrs.

Parker refused to pose for pictures, but Mrs. Barrow, smiling and happy over her release, willingly agreed. "I want you to tell the world that I have paid my debt to society. I'm all washed up with this business now, and I'm going straight." Waiting for Mrs. Barrow outside the jail eleator were Marie Barrow Francis, her daughter, and Audrey Fay Barrow, wife of L.

See MOTHERS, Page 12 HARRY HOPKINS EXPECTED TO BECOME GREATEST SPENDER AS BOSS OF WORK AND RELIEF RESIGNATION JAPAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS EFFECTIVE MIDNIGHT DOUBTS RAISED AS TO ULTIMATE CONTROL MANDATED PACIFIC ISLANDS By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY Associated Press Foreign Staff GENEVA, March resignation from the League of Nations, which will take effect at midnight, raised doubts today as to who ultimately controls the Pacific islands seized from Germany and turned over to Japan under a league mandate. The Tokyo government was expected to retain control over the islands under supervision of the league's mandate commission. The delicate question of sovereignty over the mandated however, raised an issue on which Geneva experts disagree. Some say that the allied and associated powers, of which the United States was one, are vcst- with sovereignty over the is- ands and have entrusted their id Jiinlstration to Japan under Kague supervision.

Hence it is led, only the allied powers deprive Japan of her man- Jue. Others contend that the allied associated powers yielded over the various nnn- dated territories to tho "leac-up and that therefore, the Imirue Entitled to determine hat nation shall control thrn. auon It is generally conceded that the United States could claim tho right to be heard on the on of disposal of Germany's forme? insular possessions if she desire. By NATHAN ROBERTSON (Associated Press Staff Writer). WASHINGTON, March (ff) today in Florida's sunshine Harry L.

Hopkins was believed to be revolving in his mind just what he will do the capital becomes the biggest spender on earth. The federal emergency relief administrator, who held long and significant conferences with President Roosevelt on the train that carried the chief executive southward to his fishing vacation, is named in a high administration quarter as the choice for big boss of the $4,880.000,000 works and relief program. If events should confirm this forecast the poor boy who rose from an Iowa harness maker's shop through the ranks of social worker will conduct the most gigantic test of clashing theories ever attempted. Friends of the works which has now been sent to a conference between senate and that it will put 3,500,000 destitute peonle to work, speed recovery by stimulating private industry, and that the debt incurred can easily be paid off when good times come back. Critics sav that no one can spend 800.000,000 wiselv in a short time, that even if the money is snent oulcklv it will not do the things claimed for it, and that the debt will endanger the government's credit.

Opportune Time. The vast new pros-ram planned at a time when the federal reserve hoard finds that industrial outnut for February lagged behind ordinarv sonsonal upturn for the month. Motnr cars were an exceotion; the' were be- intr manufactured at an unusual rnte. But the board announced jthat its allowances for seasonal from 91 per cent of the 1023-25 average in January to 89 per cent in February. The emphasis in the coming See HOPKINS, Page 3 I DRILLSTEM TEST IS UNDER WAY TODAY IN M'GLOTHLJN-DAVANT WORK IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED LATE THIS AFTERNOON Drillstem test of the McGlolhlin- Davant Dobbins No.

1 was under way Wednesday afternoon with indications that it would be completed late in the day. The drilling crew was engaged in going in the hole with the string of pipe at the press hour. "Strawberry" Findley, Halliburton rep: Jsentative, formerly stationed in Corsicana, was in charge of the test being made of the sand. Preparations for making the test of the sands encountered in the drilling were started Wednesday morning, and pipe was started out of the hole about 11 o'clock after washing had been under way for several hours. Halliburton testing equipment arrived at the well site about noon and the drillstem with its perforated section for the exploration of the sand' was started back into the hole.

Approximately four feet of sand have been encountered in the test although only about two feet have been recovered including a portion of the cap rock. An attempt to recover slightly more than two and a half feet of sand failed Tuesday afternoon, resulting in a decision to make the drillstem KANSANS IN FERA CONFAB ON DUST DAMAGE See OIL WELL, Page 11. PROBING REPORTED EFFORTS TO POISON HERDS OFJAIRYMEN CONTAINING SUSPECTED MIXTURES BEING ANALYZED DALLAS, March cers today were investigating reports that striking milk producers had resorted to attempts to poison cattle of unsympathetic farmers in the latest move to force a price increase for their products. Seven sacks of cotton seed hulls, containing a mixture tha; was ordered analyzed to determine if it contained a poison, were found scattered over a farm a mile west of Dallas. Sheriff Smoot Schrnid sent the feed to the city chemist ordered an examination of the paper sacks for fingerprints.

By utilizing his entire staff of deputies, Sheriff Schmid reported he had halted interception of trucks. Yesterday several thousand gallons of milk werj dumped on the highway after trucks had been halted by strikers. A small quantity of milt was found poured out on the Irving road near Kit today. This was See MILK STRIKE, Page 3 HOUSE STRENGTHENS DEFENSES AGAINST FEDERAUONTROL OIL COMPACTTND MARKET DEMAND LAWS ARE PASSED OVERWHELMINGLY AUSTIN, March Texas house of representatives acted this week to strengthen the defenses of the nation's largest oil-producing state against federal control of production. With only one vote in opposition to each proposal, the house passed bills to provide for Texas adherence to a conservation compact drafted by Representatives of oil states and to" give the state railroad commission continued power to restrict Texas production to market demand.

Senate passage of the market demand bill within the next three weeks was Senators backing it predicted approval by a majority of more than two- thirds. Governor James V. Ali- rcd had not stated publicly whether he would sign the proposal but Representative Robert W. Cnl- vert, whom the governor supported for speaker, was one of its authors. The interstate compact would become effective when ratified by Texas and sanctioned by the national congress.

As soon as the Texas senate votes for ratification, efforts will be instituted to obtain congressional approval. Representative Sidney Latham of Longview, chairman of the Texas house oil and gas committee, said he considered re-enactment of the market demand law See OIL LAWS, Page 3 Gov. Alf M. Landon (right) and Senator Arthur Capper (center) of Kansas are shown as they conferred with Col. Lawrence Westbrook, assistant administrator of the federal emergency relief administration, over the dust storm situation.

At the conference, held in Washington, D. the Kansans sought aid from the FERA in projects to halt the unusual wind erosion damage. (Associated Press Photo) PANHANDLE LEADERS DRAFT IMPROVEMENT AND CONTROL PLAN PLAN DESIGNED BLANKET 26 COUNTIES IS DISCUSSED DURING DUST STORM AMARILLO, March While a stifling dust storm added to already heavy soil erosion damage, Panhandle agricultural leaders today prepared to submit to Washington a co-ordinate erosion control and farm improvement program. A committee named at a' recent meeting of county judges and commissioners drafted the plan at the request of H. H.

Bennett, head of the federal soil erosion service. Designed to blanket the 26 counties of the Panhandle, the program calls for the co-ordination of existing government agencies. The committee recommended that details of measures to combat the effects of prolonged See PANHANDLE PLAN, Page 11 Unmasked Robbers Get $50,000 Worth Diamonds, Cash TULSA. March Two unmasked bandits today held up the Ben Goldberg jewelry store here and escaped with diamonds and cash estimated to be worth $50.000. A third man was at the wheel of their car.

They fled in a light sedan bearing a 1934 Kansas tag number. Ben Goldberg, proprietor, Martin, Coe and W. T. Lushbaugh, clerks; Troy Rowe, Tulsa jewelry salesman and L. P.

Hufsted- See ROBBERY, Page 3 HELD WITHOUT BAIL LEON COUNTY MAN IS REMANDED TO JAIL EXAMINING "TRIAL is HELD WEDNESDAY MORNING BEFORE JUDGE M'FADDEN George Ketchey of Leon county was remanded to the Navarro county jail at the conclusion of an examining trial on a murder charge before Judge W. T. McFadden Wednesday morning in connection with the death of Wm. J. Towns, 36, of Corsicana in a local hospital Friday night.

Towns received knife wounds in the abdomen Thursday night in Leon county when he is alleged to have attempted to aid his one-armed companion, Lynn Dickerson of Grand Saline, who was engaged in a difficulty with the person on a road. Towns was reported repairing a flat tire at the time of the trouble and went to thd aid of his friend. Dickerson was taken to a Bryan, Texas, Hospital where he died Friday night. The two fatally wounded men were discovered early Friday morning by pipeliners. Ketchey was arrested Friday'by Leon county officers and was brought to Corsicana and later was returned to Leon county when Towns' condition prevented his viewing the suspect.

Sheriff Rufus Pevehouse Mon- See KETCHEY, Page 11. Indian Found Dead McALESTER, March Arpelar, 55, full blood Choctaw Indian, was found dead near the town of Arpelar, named after his family, early today. Benjamin county health officer, said death was due to heart disease. W. O.

Merrill, undcrsheriff, said earlier reports Arpelar was to nave appeared as a state witness in a murder 6ase here today were erroneous. DEATH SENTENCE OF ALLEGED SLAYER OF PATROLMAN AFFIRMED TWO LIFE SENfENCES WERE ALSO AFFIRMED BY APPEALS COURT PANHANDLE RESIDENTS FATTER AND DIRTIER THAN EVER WHILE BARRELS ROLL By GENE HOWE Publisher Amarillo News a Gldb (Written for the Associated Press) AMARILLO, March Another unusual storm, has descended upon the Panhandle and it is the most unusual and the chokingest of all. Rpallv the men manage to get alonj: pretty well during a dust storm but it is hard on the women in their housekeeping. Every time there is a dust storm every good housekeeper seriouslv informs her husband every evening that they must move out of the country and never come back. The slovenly housekeepers who sweep the dust under the beds do even more complaining for the simple reason that they have more time in which to do it.

Rabbits Halt Traffic. Travelers arriving in Amarillo report that traffic on one of the highways near Vega was held up for more than an hour by a great migration or exodus of iackrab- bits headed toward the southeast. The great horde wa.s more than 300 yards wide and was miles in length. Automobiles that tried to drive through had their wheels and mechanism choknd with carcasses. Here Are Some Wind and Dust Storm Stories See HOW.E, Page 11.

TAHOKA, Texas, Storch Kansas fog, known to some as a dust storm, with visibility at two city blocks, caused an hour's delay In the coming dawn here today. One fanner reported he heard Ms hen cackle early today. He ran out to get the egg for his breakfast and inrtlde the egg he found a mud ball. An old timer, who has weathered many dust storms, says it Is never too- windy to work until It takes seven men to hold a cow hide over a keyhole. Another reported the wind hie- -v 50 gul- lon barrel from his yard lust The wind returned It tills wind and dust hnd worn it down to a five gallon barrel.

A traveling salesman came Inlo Tahoka n-lth the story that his car would hardly pull until ffte atmosphere cleared and lie wan three other cars that had stalled during: the storm. AUSTIN, Texas, March Texas court of criminal appeals today affirmed the death penalty of Ramiro Galvan, alleged to have killed Ivan Scotten, border patrolman, in a gun battle in El Paso county in 1929 between United States officers and alleged liquor smugglers. Galvan at one timo was head of the municipal guards at San Ysidro, Mexico, near where the pitched battle occurred on July 20, 1929. Ho contended in his appeal that two state witnesses were prejudiced against him because he and other officers arrested their father and brother. "We would hesitate to reverse a case," the appellate court said, "upon no stronger showing of in jury than the mere rejection 01 testimony offered to show hostil ity on the part of a witness which testimony went no further than to show that the accused was one of a group of officers who had executed a warrant of arrest in a regular way upon a relative of the witness." Witnesses said five border patrolmen and an estimated "12 or 14" alleged smugglers took part in the gun fight at the Los Pom- pos crossing of the Rio Grande Galvan was alleged to have been See APPEALS COURTS, Page 12 OERNARD M.

BARUCH DEMANDS CONVICTION OR FULL EXONERATION FORMER CHAIRMAN WORLD WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD BE FORE SENATE COMMITTEE By PRESTON L. GLOVER Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March program for "paying as yo fight" in the event the Unite States becomes involved in anothe war was advocated today befor the senate munitions committee Bernard M. Baruch, chairman the world war industries board. Such a 1 executed taxation and price-fixing wou "save generations unborn, as we as ourselves, untold th tall white-haired witness asserte to an attentive committee. Previously, replying to what termed "insinuations innuen dos" against him, he aserted tha when he was called to war tim government service he sold "at heavy cost to my fortune" "holdings that even remotely touch ed upon my official duties." The New York financier, recenl ly named by President Roosevel as head of a committtec to devls ways of taking excess profits ou of war, asked the committee to "put an end" to the insinuations or to "find me guilty of violation of the trust and confidence imposed upon mo during that period.

Endorses Tlynn Plnn Baruch endorsed In principle the committee war time plan drawn by ohn Flynn, economist and wrlt- ir by which virtually all individual profits above $10,000 a year would be takon by taxation and indus- See BARUICH, Page 2 i NEW BLUE SKY LAW PASSED WEDNESDAY BY TEXAS HOUSE OIL LAW REPEALED AND NEW ADMINISTRATION-FAVORED BILL SUBSTITUTED AUSTIN, March house of representatives passed unanimously today the administra- iton-favored bill repealing the present blue sky law and providing new regulations for distribution of securities in Texas. In a recent message to the leg- silature, Governor James V. Allred said millions of dollars of spurious securities were being distributed annually in Texas and legislation to curb activities of fly-by-night dealers was needed greatly. Secretary of State Gerald C. Mann, administrator of the law, told committees that existant blue sky law was not "worth a dime" and "regulated nothing." The proposed new securities act provides for a commissioner of securities to be appointed by the secretary of state for a term coincident with that of the secretary of state at a salary not to exceed $3,600.

It further provides for licensing of all dealers and salesmen of securities and for revocation of licenses by the secretary of state after hearing on evidence of fraudulent practices. An original provision for bonding of dealers and salesmen was eliminated as Impracticable. Salary Amendment. Hearty approval of the measure was evidenced by the speed with which various perfecting amendments were adopted. One such amendment by Representative W.

E. Pope of Corpus Christ! made it possible for the salaries of em ployes to be set by the regular legislative process. Another by Representative W. A. Schofner of Temple eliminated a requirement that the commissioner of securities should bo a BLINDING CLOUDS OF SAND WHIPPED BY NORTHWEST WIND SHARPLY FALLING TEMPER.

ATURE ELIMINATES SUMMER-LIKE WEATHER See LEGISLATURE. Page 11. Payroll Robber Is Sought as Violator Of 1934 Parole GALVESTON, March was learned today that Daniel J. Dennehy, given a 99-year sentence here for participation in a $6,500 dry dock payroll hold-up several 'ears ago, was sought as a parole iolator. Dennehy was arrested in Dallas shortly after the robbery and re- urned here trial.

Advices from Austin said he was given a parole last year and failed return to prison. By The Associated Press Temperatures were dropping toward the freezing- point in the dust-ridden plains states today as West Texas reported the worst dust storm of the season. Visibility was reduced to a few hundred feet, the sun. was obscured and breathing was difficult. Dust clouds continued to blot out the sun in many parts of Oklahoma.

Weather observers warned of possible frost tonight. Southwest Kansas was digging out of an overnight dust storm. A dusty tinge was visible against rain clouds over Denver where snow fell in the night and frost appeared today. Southeast Colorado still was without needed moisture to stop soil blowing. (By The Associated press) Blinding dust clouds, driven by a cold north wind, whipped southward across Texas today, heralding what appeared to be the worst storm of its kind this year.

Striking Texline just before midnight, the dust had befogged most of West and North Texas. It reached Fort Worth and Dallas, in the form of a reddish haze, about 9 a. m. Sharply falling temperature marked the disturbance. The mercury tumbled to 40 degrees at Pampa, while similar declines were registered over practically the entire region affected.

Wind velocity stepped up to 32 miles an hour for a. time at Fort Worth. The blow was gusty and. from the northeast, bearing the dust clouds swiftly over the state. The stifling dust made breathing difficult at Abilene, with visibility reduced to a few hundred feet.

Lubbock residents went about with handkerchiefs over their faces, but that gave them llt- tln relief from the choking fog. Workers found breathing difficult Inside buildings. Masked By Gray Tall. The Panhandle was masked by a gray pall, dust becoming thicker as full force of the storm centered on the region. The dust clouds hung low over lainview, making it difficult to discern objects two blocks away.

The dust gradually enveloped San Angelo. cutting down visibility to a minimum. A cold norther drove the tern- See DUST STORM, Page 2 MAYOR OF HARASSED COLORADO CITY DISCUSSED PROTECTION AGAINST EROSION OF SOILS (Editor'" livestock and irrain producing- community ot Sprlnp- lelcl. has been a pivotal point thd sweeping dust Htorms that havu liaruptrd the. livelihood of the.

farmers ind ranchcrB in portions of three coun- By HARVEY McKINNIS Mayor ot Springfield, Colo. Written for The Associated Presi. SPRINGFIELD, March (IP) same question comes to us from every side: "How are you going to meet this problem? And the answer Is still largely matter of rain. The government's soil erosion plans may prove our ultimate salvation. Petitions asking federal authorities to start such control measures here are now being signed and we are looking for ward hopefully to the government's response.

But I don't think any kind of planting will be effective until moisture restores the soil to a productive basis. Erosion control will, however, take care of itself to some degree if moisture is forthcoming. (As the mayor wrote, fresh swirls of silt appeared but with hardly the velocity of previous storms. The mercury was dropping, however, and flakes of snow in northern Colorado were looked to as possible harbingers of mois ture.) Our people, on the whole are not novices in meeting the troubles of the drought and EASTERN FRONTIER OF GERMANY MAIN WQRRYMSENT FIVE IMPORTANT DEMANDS ALLEGED HAVE BEEN MADE TO BRITISH MISSION prairie farming. of the settlers are from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas veterans of earlier struggles against the same elements.

Tho condition of our banks hroug-h the last three years is iroof enough that these farmers nd cowmen are self-reliant and ager to hang on if they have a By HAROLD P. BUAMAN (CoprriKlil. IIKIR, By Associated PreM.) LONDON, March London quarters declared today that Reichsfuehrer Hitler demanded from Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, that the powers grant Germany the following concessions: 1. An economic union with Austria; 2. The elimination of Pomorze "Polish corridor" which under the (rcaty ot Versailles gives Poland a soacoast; 3..

Tho return of some territory with the repatriation of 3,500,000 Germans there; 4. Aviation strength equal to (ho air forces of Great Britain or France, tho lovel to be governed by (lie air strength of Anting chance. There has been much written )out our situation here in Baca that is true but much as been exaggerated and some ports arc inaccurate. The dust hasn't killed ct so far as we can tell. Soviet Russia; A.

navy of about 400,000 tons. Reichsfuehrer Hitler was said hnvo told the British foreign cretnry that he regards Germany's eastern frontier as elastic and subject to revision at any time and that one of his first aims is the reunion of East Prussia with the rest of Germany eliminating Pomorzc. He said he was displeased with the way so many Germans have See EROSION, Page 3 lived under Czech rule and that anyone I he feels their return to the pro- 1 The I tection of the Fatherland mind)' See FIVE DEMANDS..