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121 SHREVEPORT. LA. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS PER COPY mwm Snowstorm in Rocky Mountains Causes Fatal Airplane Crash TEXAS LEADS LIST WITH 149 NABBED THERE Two Negroes Spirited Defenders of Alcazar Wild With Joy as Fascists Come to Rescue TAX PROGRAM ADVOCATED BY GOV.

ALLRED Away as Mob Gathers ADMIRAL DEAD INSURGENT AIR FORCE PLANES BOMB BILBAO Mississippi Sheriff Saves Accused Murderers From Possible Violence at Grenada, Miss. Grenada, Sept. 28 (VP). Sheriff Dave Dogan protected two negro prisoners from possible violence today by eluding an angry crowd. The demonstration occurred late in the afternoon when the 'negroes, Tommy Jones, 45, and Andrew Hemphill, 50, were being led from the courthouse to the jail.

Sheriff Dogan, accompanied by two assistants, pushed the negroea Into a waiting car and sped out of town. Ed Brunson, Grenada county Jailor, said after the sheriff left a crowd of about SO persons came from the courthouse to the jail and asked for the two negroes. "I told them they weren't here," Brunson said. "Then to prove It, I took two squads of citizens through the whole Jail. When they left they seemed satisfied." Brunson said a county grand Jury indicted the negroes earlier today for first degree murder In connection with the slaying of two young farm (Continued On Fat Fourteen.) Paralysis Case Proves To Be Spinal Abscess i STUB 4f 4f troller Artillery Also Pounds Besieged City on Biscay Bay Shore GOVERNMENT FLIERS ACTIVE AT OVIEDO Fascists Rest at Toledo in Preparation for Drive Upon Madrid (Copyright.

193. by United Press.) Lisbon, Tuesday, Sept. 29 (U.R). Madrid poured reinforcements toward the Toledo front today to bolster a Loyalist counter-attack against victorious Rebels advancing on the capital. A fierce battle raged a few miles north of Toledo, now In Rebel hands, with the advantage first with the government and then with the Insurgents.

San Sebastian, Sept. 28 (LP). An insurgent column of 6,000 men launched a vicious bombardment of Bilbao today from artillery emplacements In the adjacent hills. The city was shelled for four hours, de stroying numerous buildings and causing many deaths. At the same time six Junkers bombers from Burgos rained bombs of 250 kilograms (550 pounds) each on the city.

Rebels Ignore Threat The bombardment came a few hours after the governor of the beleaguered city had threatened to (Continued On Page Six.) DEBATE ENDS ON FRANCE'S MONEY PLAN Action Indicates Sweeping Victory for Premier Leon Blum (Copyright, 1938, bjr Associated Press.) Paris, Sept. 29 (Tuesday) (JP). The chamber of deputies gave strong in dication early today it would approve Premier Leon Blum's devaluation plan when It voted, 344 to 246 to end general debate. A final vote In the chamber was expected at 5 a.m. following discussion of the articles Individually at the special session which began last night.

Block Price Rise. Blum, In addition to seeking ap proval of the bill for devaluation of the franc, asked parliament to vest In him authority to decree against price Increases. Jacques Duclos, as a spokesman for ths Communist deputies, declared they would bsck the government although they still opposed devalu ation. The Communists Joined with other Left parties In forming the People's Front which won powsr in the general elections last sprln? During yesterday's session of the legislative bodies, the premier was voted a comfortable majority on a proposal to shunt the legislation back into the finance committee. (Continued On Pas Thtre.) THREE KILLED IN COLORADO AIR TRAGEDY Worst September Blizzard in History Blamed for 8 Other Deaths RAIL TRACKS AND HIGHWAYS BLOCKED Severe Damage to Orchards, Trees, Shrubs, Farm Crops Reported Denver, Sept.

28 (LP). Three persons were killed today in the crash of a mail and passenger plane during a blinding snowstorm which already had taken eight other lives in the Rocky Mountain region's worst September blizzard. Those killed in the plane crash were C. H. Chldlaw, pilot, of 1 Paso, Texas, and Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Elklns of Ban Francisco, passengers. The storm had deduced visibility and celling to a dangerous point. The plane took off from Trinidad, at 8:45 a. m.

and had not been reported until wreckage was discovered near Rattlesnake Buttes, 30 miles from Walsenburg, Colo, late this afternoon. Farmers Find Plane. The plane, flying from El Paso, Texas, to Pueblo, was grounded by the three-day storm at Trinidad last night. George Treat and Bush, farmers, found the plane tonight. Mora than 26 Inches oi snow was recorded at several Colorado points and damage to telephone and tele graph wires, crops and trees was heavy.

Highway and rail transportation were crippled In several regions. The storm broke last Friday night with a howling dust storm and gale. Harry Pettlnger, power company em ploye, was blown from a pole to his death while repairing a power line. Charles A. Sheeley was fatally Injured (Continued On Tage Six.) WEST TEXAS STREAMS ARE ON RAMPAGE Central Portion of State Also Facing Serious Flood Threat Waco, Texas, Sept.

28 -Lowland dwellera of Central and West Texas fled tonight before crests from a down wild streams for the second time In ten days. Four were dead, refugees numbered thousands and damage soared Into the millions as rivers and tributaries, fed by early autumnal rains, poured through fields and towns. Relief from Rain. Rolref from further rainfall was sighted when skies cleared after ar rival of the season's first cool snap Damage estimated at 15,000,000 wrought In last week's disaster tn the San Angelo area, will not be equated, a survey revealed. At Waco, where 2,500 homeless refugees received aid from national guardsmen and the Red Cross, the damage mounted past 1,500.000.

J.C. Patterson, agent, said battered corn and cotton cropa hid teen damaged 11,000,000. City Manager W. T. Torrance conservatively estimated damage to East Waco structures, almort totally Inundated, at 1500,000.

The latest threat to life and prop erty arose in Milam county, where (rnltnar On fare Fourteen.) LEASE BROKERS OILMEN AND OWNERS! Advertise your holdings quirk-Iv and profitably through TIT, PROPOSITIONS" classification The Times' Want Ad Columns. TOUR MESSAGE will reach more than 49,000 pairs of "eager yes" dally throughout the Land of Ar'k-La-Tex. Times Want Ads "Ate Cheaper in the Long Run" FIRST in Results REmirrn rates on thrfb it SEVEN-TIMS INSERTIONS Thirteen Captured at Mt. Pleasant, Gladewater and Tyler in Nation -Wide Narcotic Campaign MANY ILLICIT STILLS SEIZED BY SLEUTHS More Than 100 Automobiles Confiscated; Total of 2,500 Treasury Dept. Men Participate Washington, Sept.

28 Arrest of more than 300 persons on charges of violating narcotic laws and seizure of "several hundred" illicit stills were reported tonight by treasury agencies conducting a country-wide "clean-up" law enforcement drive. The reports were preliminary, and the figures were expected to be pushed upward as additional field reports came In. The treasury drive one of It periodic broad offensives against narcotic and liquor law violators got underway early this morning and was pushed vigorously throughout the day. Texas Arrests Lead. The largest number of narcotics arrests were reported in Texas, where 149 persons were taken Into custody on narcotic peddling charges.

A quantity of marihuana was seized at San Antonio, Texas, officials reported. Among those arrested in Texas were two parole violators, officials said, while one parole violator was taken at Toledo, Ohio. Officials of the alcohol tax unit which, with the narcotics bureau, had formed the sprearhead of the treasury drive, reported that they had seized "several hundred" illicit stills and made a like number of arrests. More than 100 automobiles also were seized. Approximately 2,500 treasury agents were mobilized for the drive today.

The Texas narcotics arrests, officials said, were made largely In San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston and Wichita Falls. To Push Prosecution. In Pennsylvania, agents seized two alleged narcotic peddlers at Phila delphia and five at Pittsburgh. Seven teen were taken at Ashevllle, N. nine at Clarks.

W. 21 in Tennes see and Kentucky and 23 in Michigan. Toledo, Ohio, was the scene of 20 arrests and 18 persons were taken into custody at Kansas City, Mo. Other totals by states at the time of an early-evening tally follow: Oklahoma, fouf; Arkansas, four; Washington, 14: Oregon, seven: Montana, 29; California. 21; New York, eight, and Boston, five.

Practically all of those arrested were charged with illegally selling narcotics, treasury officials said, and prosecution proceedings will be launched in all cases. THIRTEEN PERSON'S FACING TRIAL IN EAST TEXAS Dallas, Sept. 28 (JP). Charges ot violation of the Harrison antl-nar-cotlc act were filed at Tyler today against 13 residents of Mount Pleasant. Gladewater and Tyler.

It was announced st the district office of the federal narcotic division. Named in the complaints were Roy Hardlu, Jim Hodge. D. B. Weber, H.

W. Stone, A. C. Montgomery, Lonnie (Continued On Pase F.leven.) JUST A MINUTE With IRVLN S. COBB Santa Monies, Sept, 23.

Excluding Britons and Scsndlns-vlans, ours remains almost the only Important white race that hasn't a dictatorship or worse, And the high tlds of Cotnmun-Ism laps these shores, whteh once we thought were Insulated by time and distance evil alien contacts. We still stand aloof from entangling foreign alliances despite pressure from within and without, but no longer may we bar treasonable foreign propaganda not with science making duck-ponds out of oceans. Moreover, sundry great powers work to turn out war planes capable of spanning a eea or continent on a single hostile dash. I.n't It about time we real-lied we, the foolish virgin emongit the rtntlons, who once fondly fancied this land protected by It hemispheric Isolation that we're Just about as Isolated Dsnlel was In the lion's den? And Daniel had miracle fall bark on. IRVIN A.

COM. Women, Children Weep Hysterically as S'wge of Ten Weeks Ends With Fall of Toledo With the Rebel Armies at Toledo, Sept. 28 (IP). (Delayed). With haggard, unshaven and smoke grimed faces alight with joy, the defenders of the Alcazar tore down the great barricades and gates of the antient fortress Monday.

A moment later wildly-excited Moors and Foreign Legionnaires rushed through the breach and frantically embraced the Alcazar cadets, besieged for more than 10 weeks. Precautions Taken Thin-faced women and children rushed from their subterranean homes, sobbing and laughing alternately as they greeted the troops. Gen. Francisco Franco, rebel commander-in-chief, ordered the defenders not to leave the Alcazar until the Loyalists were cleared from Toledo, in case they might accidentally be shot by rebels tn the confusion of fighting. But the defenders actively participated in the final routing by fierce fire in the streets from the shattered battlements.

A wounded officer who participated in the final assault, gave the following description of the battle: "The Reds built a redoubt In a cemetery dominating the Madrid road. While- we were preparing to (Continued On Page Three.) WAGNER SAYS CONSTITUTION IN NO PERIL Senator Sounds Keynote at New York Democratic Convention Armory, Syracuse, N. Sept. 28 UP) The constitution Is safe when the Democratic party is in control of the government, TJ. S.

Senator Robert F. Wagner said tonight In a fighting keynote speech to the Democratic state convention. The portly author of the National Lt-bor Relations act, which Is facing a constitutionality test in the United States supreme court, charged that the Republicans, instead of driving reactionary elements from the party, had formed "through the Liberty League the most brazen alliance with these forces In our history." Civil Liberties Safe "We have Just cause to be proud," thj senator said, "that despite the extraordinary stress of circumstances, neer have dictatorial methods been used, never have Democratic methods been abandoned, never have civil liberties been guarded more zealously than under the administration of Piesldent Roosevelt and Governor Herbert Lehman. The constitution is (Continued On Pane Throe i GEN, BRANT TO RETURN SOON Completes Alaskan Mission Regarding Visits to Air Base Sites Lieut. John H.

Davles Is en route to Seattle. where Thursday he will meet Brig. -Gen. Gerald C. Brant, commanding officer of the ThM Wing, and bring him back to Shreveport In an A-17 plane.

General Brant has been In Alaska for several weeks on war department mission to aid In the selection of sn Alaskan air base. While on his trip Oeneral Brant planned to hunt the blue glacier bear. He has been gone about six weeks. General Brant and Lieutenant Davles are expected to return here about Oct. 4 or S.

Auto Crash Injuries Fatal to Arkansan Csmdcn. Bept. 28 (Special Injuries suffered when he was knocked off the side of a car running board Sunday afternoon proved fatal to Ike Scale, 38. of Ouachita, today, Seals died In the Catnden hospital from a fractured skull and other Injuries, Says Crisis Exists in Old Age Pension Financial 1 Situation EXPECTS ROLLS WILL REACH 147,676 TOTAL May "Reasonable' Increase in Levy on Crude Oil Austin, Texas, Sept. 28 (IP).

Gov-error James V. Allred told the Texas legislature meeting In a special session today that an "absolute emergency existed in a need for additional financing of old age assistance. He submitted a report by Orville S. Carpenter, state pensions director, that a minimum of $4,277,745 would be necessary to pay" pensions until Jan. 1 and $12,00,000 annually thereafter, and recommended a number of tax measures.

Simultaneously, Rep. E. E. Hunter of Cleburne filed a resolution proposing an Investigation of pension (Continued On Pace Eleven.) POLICE STUDY TEXAN'S STORY OF "HOLDUP" Self-Styled Companion of Gangsters Taken Into Custody Police Monday night were investigating a story told by a man who said he was R. M.

Nixon, 51, of San Antonio, Texas, held In the city Jail Monday after detectives said they had found in his possession a note addressed to another San Antonio man. Police said the note, to "Mr. Red Berry, 119 Solodad street, San Antonio, Texas," contained the sentence: "It would be a snap and a pleasure to SNIPE either you or the Mrs. with a high-powered rifle with silencer." It was signed M. Nixon," police said.

Detectives C. O. Crabtree and H. H. Wimberly took Nixon into custody Monday after he had walked into a local newspaper office and claimed he was beaten and robbed of (22 In cash by two men who transported him from Shreveport to Mlnden las.

Friday. Nixon, according to the officers, said he came here Monday a wee ago wrlth two "gangsters" with whom he claimed to have served time In (Continued On Page Three.) CHECK BABY'S FINGERPRINTS New Jersey Officials Willing to Help Clear Up Dallas Case 1 Trenton, N. 3 Sept. 28 UP). New Jersey officials expressed willingness today to compare fingerprints Of Charles A.

Lindbergh, with those of a living child In Dallas, Texaa, reported to resemble him. Col. Mark O. Klmberllng, state police superintendent, said he would insist, however, that In the event of a comparison, the fingerprints tI the Dallas child or of any other "living Lindbergh baby" must be sent to Trenton. Gov.

Harold G. Hoffman, Informed by a Dallas newspaper man that thera were rumors tn the city the Lind bergh baby was In the care of a woman of foreign nationality, re quested the report be checked. MONHOE DRIVER SUCCUMBS TO BUS CRASH INJURIES Baton Rouge. Bept. 38 (IP).

Artie Erskine, of Monroe. died of Injuries suffered when a bus he was driving tumbled off a 15-foot em bankment yesterday in west Fell- clana parish. Six passengers were less badly hurt. Some of them said Erktn lost control of the bus after cleared hilltop and ws moving downgrade, The vehicle skidded 1.0 feet after rolling off the embsnkn.cn. Singing Students Centenary students, who have been creating various noises In and under the football stadiums, will have a chance to develop harmony to go along with their rhythm, li DEAN JOHN A.

HARDIN'S announcement may be taken as grounds for forecast The Dean, during chapel the other day, advised the student body that 100 additional song bonks would be on hand In the near future, And there should be music. Cool Weather There are various ways of telling when cool weather Is here, beside reading the thermometer. Crowds In the stores buying heavier clothes (You should have seen the parents downtown yesterday, getting sweaters, etcetera for their young 'uns). Said crowds stepping along lively THE STROLLER climbing steps two at a time A certain downtown air conditioned store being warmer inside than out Firemen answering calls to homes damaged by fires resulting from poorly-installed new stoves And CHIEF S. J.

FLORES issuing his annual warnlrfg to householders to see that the stoves are not too near curtains, the walls or anything that will burn. Among Us Girls From "BILL" MAYO we have a card showing a picture of the Westchester Country club In Rye, N. which he claims and we'll have to admit "is some clubhouse." Take the word of LUKE GAR-LAN! of Mlnden that he had to go along to Baton Rouge Saturday as the chaperon for AUBREY CRAKE, TOM CAMPBELL and JIM PITCHER It looked as though he made a good chaperon Our regards to KATHEUINE CARNAHAN, IRENE THOMAS, and LILA MAE O'NEAL, whose bright chatter kept a trolley-load of people In laughter. Their blushes when they were discovered added to the fun, too Congratulations to MR. and MRS.

STANLEY DAVIES, who were married here Saturday afternoon. MRS. DAVIES la the former ANNA BELL WILSON, secretary to LEON BOOTH, city purchasing agent at the city hall We hear that BERNARD BREWER, Shreveport L. 8. U.

student, has been married over a year, but that's not the surprise; we didn't know that he could keep anything a secret that long. Admiral William S. Sims, World War commander of the American navy fleet in European waters, died Monday at the age of 77. WORLD WAR NAVY FLEET CHIEF DIES Admiral William Sims Succumbs to Heart Attack Boston, Sept. 28 (JP).

Admiral William S. Sims, war time commander of the American fleet in European waters, died of a heart attack at a daughter's home here today. He was 77 years old. The retired naval officer, who would have been 78 years old Oct. 15.

underwent an operation in June and appeared to be regaining his health. Mrs. Robert Hopkins, the daughter at whose home he died, said he suffered the heart attack yesterday but lingered until today. Funeral plans have not yet been completed. The admiral is survived by his widow, the former Anne Hitchcok of St.

Louis, three daughters, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Robert Fiske, Mrs. Eltlng Morrison and two sons, William Sow den, and Ethan. Sims, to use his own words, "Just scraped in" to the naval academy In 1876, to start a career that took him (Continued On Page Three.) SCOUT DRIVE ENDS AT NOON Final Tabulation of Con tributions Will Be Made at Luncheon Norwela Council's drive for 118.000 to finance Boy Scout work In the Shreveport area through the coming year, will end today.

Workers In the drive have been requested to report at 12:15 p.m. In the Crystal ballroom of the Wash-Ington-Vouree hotel for a last lunch eon meeting. A final tabulation of contributions will be made there. Receipts Monday In the office of Henry O. Shires, executive, brought the total "well above $10,000," Mr.

Shires said. "We're expecting a big meeting to day," he added, "and hope to come very close to our goal." New Total Ready Soon Re-diagnosis Causes Reopening of 6B Class, Lifting of Restrictions at Alexander School Alexander school's 6-B grade will resume its class work today and all quarantine restrictions Imposed on students and members of the family of LeRoy Wilson will be lifted. LeRoy, who Is 14 and a member of the 6-B class, was believed to be-suffering from infantile paralysis In a mild form, and as a result the room was closed Tuesday, Sept. 22. Mopday it was discovered that an abscess of the spinal column and not Infantile paralysis was the cause of the boy's illness.

Because the abscess is in no way contagious, Dr. J. Sandidge, dlrec tor of the Caddo parish health unit, (Continued On rge Fourteen.) LUXURY LEVY REPEAL ASKED AT N. 0. MEET Merchants Gather to Hear Attacks on Revenue Raising Plan New Orleans, Sept.

28 (JP). SeV' eral hundred grocers, in a mass meet ing of 5,000 persons who booed Governor Richard Leche'a name, voted tonight to close their stores Wednes day and "march on" Baton Rouge In protest against the two per cent sales tax. The tax, on sales of articles not specifically exempted, is scheduled to become effective Thursday. A city sales tax of the same amount will also become effective on that date. Repeal Demand Made Representatives of numerous busi ness groups made addresses demanding repeal of the levy.

They contended the law was so complicated business would have to get special bookkeepers to make reports. Governor Leche said at Baton (Continued On Fare Thirteen.) 600 Men Added to Jap Garrison at Shanghai Shanghai, Tuesday, Sept. 29 (IP). Three Japanese warships arrived hers today and disembarked 600 blus Jackets to enforce Tokyo's edict that Japanese lives and property must be protected at all costs. Forestry officials pointed out, however, that a brisk wind might send flames shooting sgaln Into eight com munities from which the roaring flames had been turned aside.

Nine persons were burned to death In the weekend fires, towns of Bandon and Prosper destroyed, and 2,000 persons mart homeless. All nine lost their lives In the fire which leveled the once prosperous town of Bandon. CCC workers searched ashes of the burned city today but failed to find more bodies, although (Continued fa Three.) Federal Census Takers Puzzled by City Status Wind Change Aids Forest Fire Fighters in Oregon Flames Still Eating Way Over 12,000 Acres of Timber Lands, But Menace to Towns Sulfides Bureau Abandons Old Formula Which Would Indicate Population of Br B.ISCOM N. TIM.M0NS (The Tlmea tvenhlnstoa Carrrnnnnrient .) Washington, D. Sept, 38.

The federal census bureau, beset by many difficulties. Is making a strong at-tempt to accurately estimate the pop ulntion of the nation's larger cities, Including Shreveport, this year. Because of the unusual conditions of the country during the past several years resulting from the depression and unemployment, the bureau has been forced to abandon lim A Ia. a.a.I. lation snd adopt the mors tedious Hyde Tark, N.

Sept. 2d (If). President Roosevelt tonight or dered all federal agencies to help In combatting the trltlcal forest fire lt nation In Oregon. Marshfleld, Ore, Sept. 38 (LP).

Fa vorable winds and an all-day fight by 2.000 soot blackened tire fighters changed the tide In' southwestern Oregon's battle against devastating forest fires today snd left hope that the fires soon would be under control. task of utilizing a large number of reports, information and other data In fixing the new city populations. Officials of the bureau said today that any attempt to estimate the population of a city by the old census bureau formula Is futile. The depression has caused distinct shifts In population which cannot be accounted for by the formula, they declared. Shrrveport's population, figured on th old formula, has been estimated st 87.000.

There Is no reason to be- (l en tinned On rate tenrleen.).