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WEATHER FAIR Fair Cooler Sunday Sunday American-Statesman 4 SECTIONS-54 PAGES AUSTIN, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1937. PRICE 10c IN AUSTIN Number 157. Volume 24. Ponies Defeat Steers; Bears Turn Back Frogs Bullet Patterson Is Ace of Baylor's 6-0 Victory BRUINS STAND OUT FOR TITLE Shining Hillsboro Boy Leads Teammates To Victory By WILBUR EVANS American-Statesman Staff WACO, Oct. Less than two months ago Dutch Meyer was feelling sorry for "poor old" Morley Jennings, pointing out that the BayJor university coach just didn't have the material to go anywhere in the Southwest conference grid campaign.

Here on the Bears' home field Saturday, these fighting Green and Gold Bears made T.C.U.'s Coach Meyer eat those words they blasted his Frogs from the title running with a 6-0 victory. The victory established the Golden Bears further ahead in the role of conference favorite and placed the Christians out of the running along with Texas A. M. and the Texas Longhorns, who have lost two or more games to date. In Waco this night they are singing the praises of Bullet Bill Patterson, that pass linging, running, punting sensation from the neighbor city of Hillsboro.

This brilliant star not only piloted the Bears to (Continued on page 10, col. 1) 0. W. Sandstrom Taken by Death After Operation Attorney and Referee In Bankruptcy Dies Here; Rites Monday Another prominent dent was taken by W. Sandstrom, Austin federal referee in the western district of at a local hospital an illness of several Mr.

Sandstrom died emergency operation citis which he SANDSTROM underwent a days ago. He was reported recovering Friday but complications set LD and death inervened. Survivors are his widow, one daughter, Miss Edna Sandstrom; his mother, Mrs. Hannah Sandstrom of Elgin; one sister, Mrs. Oscar Eklund of Detroit.

and one brother, Victor Sand strom of Detroit, Mich. The body will be taken from the Hyltin home to the Sandstrom Texas avenue Sunday at where it will remain until at 2 p. when it will to the Gethsemane church to lie in state services, scheduled for 3 Officiating will be the Chester, assisted by Dr. Scott, the Rev. H.

B. (Continued on page 8, Austin restdeath when 0. attorney and bankruptcy for Texas, died Saturday after days, after an for appendi- Funeral home on 3 p. Monday be taken Lutheran until the p. m.

Rev. J. E. A. L.

Haterius, the col. 5) IN MAYORALITY RACE Football Results Texas 2. Arkansas 26, A. M. 13.

Baylor 6, TCU 0. Rice 13, Auburn 7. Army 20, VMI 7. Pennsylvania 14, Navy 7. Michigan State 16, Kansas 0.

Harvard 34, Princeton 6. Cornell 14, Columbia 0. Yale 9, Dartmouth 9. Fordham 14, North Carolina 0. Pitt 25, Carnegie Tech 14.

Oklahoma 19, Kansas State 0. Alabama 41, Kentucky 0, Georgia Tech 14, Vanderbilt 0. Purdue 10, Iowa 0. Tulane 14. Mississippi 7.

Northwestern 14, Wisconsin 6. Mississippi State 0, Centenary 0. Ohio State 39, Chicago 0. Notre Dame 7. Minnesota 6.

Nebraska 7, Indiana 0. Additional football scores and on pages, 9, sports reports appear Fire Station, City Hall Plans Get Okeh of PWA Bids Upon Structures Will Be Called By City for Nov. 18 Bids for the construction contract for the new central fire station at Brush park, Fifth and Trinity streets, and for the enlargement and remodeling of the city hall at Eighth and Colorado streets, will be received by the city council on Thursday, Nov. 18, City Mgr. Guiton Morgah announced after his return from Fort Worth where he conferred with C.

A. Johnson, acting state PWA director, reference to the two buildings. Mr. Morgan announced that plans for both the city hall and the fire were approved. The two statictures will cost an estimated $225,000, with the PWA giving the city a grant of $112,500 toward the erection of the new buildings.

Mayor Tom Miller Saturday expressed appreciation of the city council for the efforts of Cong. Lyndon Johnson in securing funds for the work. Pictures showing the need had been sent to Washington during the last session of congress for Mr. Johnson's use in securing the funds. City officials expressed the hope this week-end that actual construction work can be started Dec.

1. work on the fire station is expectea to start first, since city hall offices will be moved to the old fire station to the east as soon as the fire department occupies the new building. Arrangements have been completed whereby the corporation court and the police department will occupy quarters in the Travis county courthouse for five months beginning Dec. 1, Co. Commr.

Arnold Chote, in charge of the courthouse building, announced Saturday that in a conference with Police Chief Raymond D. Thorp, arrangements were made for the police department to occupy offices in the basement adjacent to the justice of the peace offices, and the county commissioners court room for holding corporation court sessions. Prisoners of the city will be kept in the county jail, Chote stated. 'Frisco Is Selected By National Guard MONTGOMERY, Oct. 30.

(P The National Guard Association of the United States selected San Francisco Saturday for its 1938 convention. New York Nazis Fight For YOUR Convenience we maintain SUNDAY CLASSIFIED SERVICE at our counter from 5 to 6 P. M. but we do not make residence calls on SUNDAY Please Call 4396 between 5 and 6 P. M.

if you wish to make corrections or cancel an ad. Thank you! THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN Read the Classifieds Today Pages 14, 15, 16 and 17, Child Killed; 7 Hurt In Bell County Wreck Oct. Mayor R. B. Rentfro, a cousin of NEW YORK, Oct.

B. Creager, republican national Nazi in Yorkville, demonstrators committeeman from Texas. German section of New York, went announced Saturday his candidacy for on a rampage late Saturday, ena fifth term as mayor. gaging charging policemen and screaming spectators in a hand-tohand battle. For YOUR Special to Sunday Americon-Bialcamen TEMPLE.

Oct. 30-A child was one critical in three-way which involved a car carrying two liquor board. The accident occurred between edge of Bell county. Billy Charles Symes, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ira Symes of Prairie Dell, was killed P. W. McCawley of Rockdale and Dallas suffered broken ribs and critical internal injuries. The child's parents and another of their children were hurt. Arthur Newby of Temple suffered a broken arm, and Roscoe Wylie of Austin, chief deputy supervisor of enforcement for the liquor board; Miss Cecilia Nelson of Austin, custodian of records at the liquor board's state office in Austin, and A NEW STORY A new serial "After Tonight." written by Cynthia' Lane, starts in The Austin American Monday.

It is another of the popular two-weeks serials, and you find it interesting. so start it Monday, Date For Dam Vote Due Soon Farbach Amendment Approved Except For One Item DECISION WILL COME MONDAY Date for Election Is To Be Set During Meet Monday Date for a special election in which a proposed amendment to the city charter to give the council authority to lease the Tom Miller dam and its properties will be decided Monday in a meeting of the city council, Mayor Tom Miller said Saturday night during a barbecue at the home of E. H. Perry at which he and Mr. Perry were hosts to the CRA board of directors, city and council officials, Cong.

Lyndon Johnson and other distinguished guests. The mayor made the announcement to newspapermen after 1 the council had received the opinion of Coleman Gay and C. F. Gibson, attorneys asked to advise the council on the proposed amendment submitted Friday by Carl F. Farbach.

Attys. Gay and Gibson approved the amendment but suggested an additional proviso which they said would adequately safeguard the city in its control of both the water system and the electric plant. Less Restrictive Judge Ike D. White, third member of the board of attorneys, examining the amendment stated he had prepared an opinion and had sent it to the council in time for the meeting Monday morning. Where Gibson and Gay stated the proposed amendment makes the power and authority of the council more ter amendment, Judge said restrictive than the present, charhe informed the council in his opinion that the amendment woula be (Continued on page 14, col.

2) WAR BOGS DOWN Nationalists, Loyalists Retreat Before Big Floods FRANCO-SPANISH FRONTIER, Oct. nationalists and loyalists retreated before floods which left the Spanish civil war bogged down in muddy trenches and overflowing rivers along the Aragon front. All war activities were paralyzed and it appeared both sides would have to spend the next eight or ten days repairing trenches and other fortifications wiped out by rising rivers. The only action on any Spanish battlefront was at Cuesta de la Reina, south of Madrid, where the government reported repulsing a nationalist attack believed to be the prelude to a general offensive. Wichita Boy Hurt In Hallowe'en Prank WICHITA FALLS, Oct.

Danny Smith, 5. ran from a cap pistol fired by a Halloween celebrant here Saturday night and was hit by an automobile. He suffered a skull fracture at the base and chest injuries, pital attendants reporting he was! not expected to survive. The child is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. Marion Smith of this city. U. T. Man Is Elected Registrars' Secretary HOUSTON, Oct.

30. (AP) Miss Irish Graham of McMurry college was elected president of the Texas association of college registrars Saturday. Other officers elected were Forrest J. Agee of the College of Mines at El Paso, vice president, and Max Fichtenbaum of the University of Texas, secretary-treasurer. Guy Wood Appointed Railway Traffic Head KANSAS CITY.

Mo. Oct. (UP) Guy B. Wood, freight traffic manager of the Kansas City Southern Railway company, Saturday was appointed vice president in charge of traffic. He succeeds Harry Weaver who retired.

Tyler To Have 2 City Managers TYLER, Oct. will have two city managers Monday. George Fairtrace, former Fort Worth city manager employed to begin work Nov. 1, will draw $6,000 annually. A.

H. Balch, his predecessor drawing $3,600, has resigned effective Nov. 10. Fairtrace is here to begin work, Balch said he would not quit until his time was up. Triplets Born To Bangs Farm Couple BROWNWOOD, Oct.

two girls and a boy were born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. H. J. (Jack) Guyer, farm couple living near Bangs.

Guyer, 75 years old, long has been a resident of Brown county. His wife is 45. British Ship Is Bombed And Sunk on High Seas Another spook is just another good reason for smiles for pretty Norma Ann Monk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monk of 2003 Sunset avenue, and that accounts for the failure Smiles at Spook of Joe Coffey, son of Mrs.

Rochelle Coffey of 1307 West 12th street, to frighten her with a hallowe'en face. Photo by Neal Douglass Treaties Are Not Jap Break With Scraps of Paper, Roosevelt Says President Receives 'Flying Caravan' Of Peoples' Mandate By International News Service HYDE PARK, N. Oct. Treaties are not scraps of paper, Pres. Roosevelt declared Saturday in informally receiving the "flying caravan" of the people's mandate committee, headed by Dr.

Mary E. Woolley, president emeritus of Mt. Holyoke college. What, he asked the women who are about to start a 17.000 mile plane flight through South America to urge ratification of the Buenos Aires treaties, is the use of making national treaties if the world as a whole is in a frame of mind to violate them on the spur of the moment or use them merely to meet temporary needs? The president answered his own question by pointing out that treaties made between nations of the Americas are observed. He expressed the hope that this example would have some impression on the bickering and embattled nations of Europe and Asia.

STILL SILENT Allred Again Fails To Give Statement on Tax Flop The third time was no go Saturpay, when Gov. James V. Allred again deferred promised statement on the recent tax session's failure and its aftermath. Alired hinted a public commitment early this week on the unicameral legislative system, as a substitute for that under which his tax program was wrecked at adjournment Tuesday night. His comment was put off until Thursday, then again until Saturday morning.

He was in Gonzales Saturday, but had planned to have a statement issued from his office. But he left Austin without getting the statement ready, his office reported. Gov. Allred went to Gonzales to take part in dedicating a Texas Centennial building. erected in memory of the men who fought in the Lexington of Texas first battle for Texas independence.

Austin Celebrates Harried Police Austin let down its hair Saturday night in A premature Hallowe'en celebration. Downtown streets were massed early, in the evening; later the crowds moved out into the residential sections and to the night spots, which were jammed with merrymakers, many in costumes. Police were harried all evening with a barrage of calls. Six pages of the blotter were filled with reports. All the city's policemen were on Nippons Battling Russians Longhorns Make All Errors in Book To Lose, 13-2 PONIES LEARN TEXANS EASY Two Points Donated By Mustangs To Biblemen By WELDON HART Staff DALLAS.

Oct. anyway, the Longhorns beat Texas Tech. Beyond that, little optimism may be related about D. X. Bible's first University of Texas team after the Steers dropped their third straight conference game to the Southern Methodist Mustangs here Saturday, 13-2.

Committing every error in the book and making up fresh ones from time to time, the Longhorns at no time appeared an efficient football team. They muffed their only scoring chance in the second quarter, ed the Ponies one touchdown in the third and allowed A secondstring S. M. U. team to make the score conclusive early in the fourth.

Ponies Donate Safety Their two points were ly donated by Coach Matty Bell of S. M. U. who had Charley Busacker take a safety in the last period when Jud Atchison's 60- yard punt and penalty set the Ponies back to their one-yard line, (Continued on page 9, col. 3) 2 High Federal Officials To Visit Austin This Week P.W.A.

Power Chief, Agriculture Leader Will Arrive Soon Two key men in the United States government concerned with agriculture and power development, will come to Austin early this week, on invitation of Cong. Lyndon Johnson, for conferences on farm needs and crop legislation, and on the $25,000,000 Colorado River authority flood control and power program. Their visit will lengthen the list of more than a dozen government officials who have come to the 10th congressional district as the result of efforts of Cong. Johnson to acquaint them with work going on in the district, farm conditions and needs of its counties. Foreman Due Monday Paul H.

Appleby, executive assistant to Secy. Henry C. Wallace of the department of agriculture, has accepted Mr. Johnson's invitation to spend one or two days in this district. He will arrive Sunday or Monday, Dr.

Clark Foreman, chief of the power division of public works ad- (Continued on page 8, col. 1) El Paso Man Named To Post With State Labor Federation Harry W. Acreman of El Paso Saturdav was elected executive secretary of of Labor the Texas succeeding State Wal- Fedlace C. Reilly, resigned. Acreman, seven years a member of the executive committee and third vice president of the organization, was chosen at a meeting of the executive board and will remaining 10 months of serve unexpired term.

The new secretary, a painter by trade, served as president of his local unit 14 years and was president of the El Paso central labor council six years. He is a prominent member of the American Legion. was killed and seven persons hurt, automobile accident late Saturday two persons connected with the state Salado and Prairie Dell, on the McCawley were in a Georgetown hospital. Wylie suffered lacerations, broken ribs and internal injuries. His injuries were considered serious but not critical.

Miss Nelson's injuries were minor. The Symes and Newby were taken to a Belton hospital. They were not seriously injured. Sheriff John R. Bigham of county said the accident involved the automobile in which the liquor board employes rode, the Symes, truck, and Newby's car, Spanish Rebel Plane Given Blame For Attack SHIP SINKS IN HIGH SEA AREA 15 Bombs Dropped On Anglo Vessel Off Barcelona By International News Service VALENCIA, Oct.

The British steamship Jean Weems, with two foreign neutrality control observers aboard, was bombed and sunk Saturday by a Spanish insurgent warplane, a government announcement here said Saturday night. It was not known as yet whether any members of the crew lost their lives, but 26 survivors took to lifeboats and arrived safely Saturday evening at Calella, near Gerona on the northeastern coast of Spain. The refugees included the observers, a Swedish and Latvian zen. The piratical attack, it was said here. occurred on the high seas, 16 miles off the northeastern coast above Barcelona.

Beginning at 8:20 the attacking plane dropped 15 bombs on the British vessel. The 2.349-ton ship built in the United States and registered from Baltimore before being transferred to British ownership--was believed headed for Barcelona when the bombing sent her to the bottom of the Mediterranean. 'Lost Battalion' Of China Given British Refuge Besieged Warehouse Is Abandoned By 377 Chinese Soldiers By LLOYD LEHRBAS Associated Press Writer SHANGHAI, (Sunday) Oct, China's "lost batallion" escaped its besieged warehouse early Saturday, running a blazing machine gun gauntlet to sanctuary in Shanghai's international settlement. At the height of a furious battle that sprayed shells over foreignowned areas of Central Shanghai, 377 Chinese dashed down a 20-yard opening to safety. They were disarmed immediately by British troops and interned for THREE MORE BRITONS SHOT IN SHANGHAI SHANGHAI (Sunday) Oct.

31. (P)-Three more British soldiers were wounded by stray shells sarly Sunday in the Jessfield Park area of Shanghai, creating a new strain on Anglo-Japanese relations. Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little and Maj. Gen. A.

P. D. Telfer-Smollett, commander of Britain's army and navy forces, both made representations to the Japanese. They urged Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa and Gen. Iwane Matsui, Japanese commander.

to alter the direction of their fire. duration of the conflict. Twenty-six were gravely wounded. Chinese said they had left behind 200 dead who fulfilled their pledge to defend the warehouse until death (Continued on page 8, col. 3) Texas Oil Worker Killed by Beam LONGVIEW.

Oct. Cobb, 27, former Manning, oil worker, died instantly Saturday when a heavy beam fell on him. His head was crushed while he and fellow workmen were pulling rods on a well derrick two miles from Seven Pines, Sheep by Plane ASHKHABAD, Turkemania, Oct. Ten thousand sheep are being shipped by plane across the desert from Ashkhabad, capital of Turkemania in Soviet Central Asia, to Tashaus, in TadJigistan, a distance of 350 miles. The sheep are a special breed purchased in Persia.

Halloween With Enthusiasm and Firemen Are duty, their ranks augmented by 25 men drafted from the fire department. Everybody had a good time. Fenders were ripped off automobiles with merry abandon. Little boys, middle-sized boys and big boys joyously pegged stones, overripe eggs and hunks of ice at Window panes and street lights. They piled brush and boxes in the streets and dug holes to trip the passing automobiles.

"PA And still the telephones at po- Frontier Guards Stage Bitter Encounter On Border PROTEST GIVEN UPON INCIDENT Air Grows Tense As 2nd Clash Arises Within Week By International News Service MOSCOW, Oct. bloody battle between Soviet and Japanese forces in the Far East was disclosed in an official communique here Saturday night, intensifying bitterness between the two rival powers close to the area of war between Japan and China. The Soviet government contended that Japanese and Tokio-ruled Manchukuoan troops provoked the battle by invading Russian soil along the Siberian-Manchukuoan border. The Japanese-Manchukuoan contingents, according to the Russian version, crossed the boundary about ten miles from the village of Pakshekori and opened fire on Soviet frontier guards. The red army troops returned the fire and, after a sharp engagement, the Japanese Manchukuoan units retreated, suffering a "number of casualties," the communique said.

The Soviet ambassador lodged a stern protest at Tokio against the alleged it was announced. The clash was the second of its kind repeated this week, indicating that the forces of both powers along the border are becoming restive and that an extremely grave threat of war may develop. RED PROBE DUE Father of Dead Son Asks Kansas For Campus Study British Urged By Unofficial Group Leaders Charge Anglo Aid Is Being Given Defenders in China By the Associated Press JOKIO, Oct. of the unofficial "council of the current situation," including high army officers and members of both houses of parliament, served notice Saturday diplomatic relations between Japan and Great Britain might be severed. In a resolution passed unanimously, the more than 100 highly-placed Japanese charged Great Britain has been assisting China and added: "The Japanese can not allow the British to continue unmolested in their present improper The resolution declared Britain had been the main driving force in persuading convocation of the Brussels nine-power pact conference Nov.

3 in an apparent effort to start intervention in the ChineseJapanese undeclared war. "If the British fail to reconsider their attitude." the resolution said, "we may be forced to take an attitude of grave determination by severing years of friendly diplomatic relations." JAPAN FAVORS U.S. AS MEDIATOR BRUSSELS. Oct. Japan is willing to accept the United States as mediator in an effort to settle the Chinese-Japanese war, providing Chinese agree first to open direct negotiations with Japan thee the United Press was told today by unofficial but reliable sources.

OIL MAN GUILTY Onetime Wealthy Oil Executive Convicted of Arson MEDIA, Oct. R. Knight, onetime wealthy oil company executive, was found guilty of arson Saturday night but was acquitted of charges that he attempted to burn his three daughters and collect $100.000 insurance on their lives. The state charged that Knight set fire to his Lansdowne, home on the night of May 27 while his daughters were asleep. He had obtained $50,000 insurance on them which called for double indemnity in event of death by fire.

MANHATTAN. Oct. (UP) -Alleged activities of communists on the University of Kansas campus will be investigated by a special committee of the board of regents, it was announced Saturday. The inquiry was demanded by Ed Henry of Dodge City, whose son. Don Henry, a Kansas student, was killed fighting with the loyalists in Spain.

Senator Ellender Predicts Passage Of Farm Program SPRINGFIELD, Oct. 30. (UP)-Sen. Allen Ellender (D-La.) predicted Saturday night that a federal farm program was assured of passage at impending special session of congress, He made the prediction as a senate agriculture sub-committee concluded its hearing to learn the sentiment of Illinois farmers toward agricultural legislation. Kansas Acreage For Wheat Down TOPEKA, Oct.

Kansas acreage planted to wheat for harvest next fall will be less than for the 1937 crop, due to the dry fall which held up seeding, J. F. Jarrel, head of the agricultural department of the Santa Fe railroad, said in his Nov. 1 crop survey report released Saturday. Bruneman Case Near Solution, Police Say TEITDELES, Oct.

30. (INS) Expressing confidence they will "break the case within a week." police Saturday continued search for the gangsters who put George "Les" Bruneman, big shot gambler and bookmaker, on the "spot" last Monday morning. Striking Dairymen Put Tacks on Roads ALBANY, N. Oct. Striking New York state dairymen dumped thousands of gallons of milk Saturday and sprinkled highways with tacks to prevent non-striking farmers from delivering their product to distributors.

Texas Vice Consul Is Given New Post WASHINGTON, Oct. The state department announced Saturday George H. Adams of Jonesboro, Texas, American vice consul at Callao-Lima, Peru, had been assigned to Antofagasta, Chile as American vice consul. September Building Drops Below August Kept on Run lice headquarters jangled. A motley parade passed the desk sergeant, who calmly took the whole thing in his stride.

In the parade were seven boys. from 16 up, caught while exuberantly popping street lights, Drunks rubbed elbows with fighters, while the jail cells were filled to overflowing. A festive spirit pervaded the atmosphere. Halloween was celebrated with enthusiasm. WASHINGTON, Oct.

September building activity, measured by the value of building permits issued in 1,521 cities. dropped 8.5 per cent below August, the labor department announced Saturday. Standard Oil Pays CHICAGO, Oct. -The Standard Oil company of Indiana Saturday declared an extra dividend of 75 cents a share in addition to the regular, quarterly disbursement of cents on the common stock. payable, Dec.

15, to stockholders record No. 15..