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Jilt Wtim Ij A Thought for Today Weather Cloudy, unsettled Tuesday and Wednesday. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. Psalm 135: 19. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Charles Sumner.

Ifa a Privilege to Live in Austin jVolume 19. AUSTIN, TEXAS, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933. Number 301: II lEfci Allred Declares Smith Cant Shut Down Etex Alone Factions Divide At Oil Parley On Plans to Give Eight University Profs Put 3 Questions To Council Candidates 9 Negroes Held In Attack Case Roosevelt Combines Warm Units as House Gets Mortgage Plan 1 By Che Associated Press WASHINGTON, March scattered federal farm credit (agencies, including the farm board, were tied into a single unit Mon House Committee -Gives Beer Bill Favorable Report Atticus Webb Sees Return Of Saloon in Solons' Vote on Measure Weaver Moore Gets In Tiff With Hoover Voter day by Pres. Roosevelt in the first of his organization moves. i Traveling swiftly upon the heels of the chief executive's submission of this order to congress, Secy.

Wallace sent to Capitol Hill program for adjusting farm indebtedness through a huge govern- iment financine plan. The secretary of agriculture refrained from saying his proposals Whether Water and Light Earnings Shall Be Used to Cut Tax Rate Main Issue To Them, Their Answer Is Negative Eight faculty members at the University cf Texas Monday addressed a letter to the editor of The Austin American in which they put three questions to candidates for city council which the candidates "may and should be expected to give clear, unequivocating answers," in their judgment. The questions are: "1. (Do you favor the maintenance, both in letter and in spirit, of the city manager system?" "2. Do you favor continuing the municipal ownership and operation of the water, light, and power system?" "3.

Do you favor the use of any part of the profits of the water, light and power system, or the profits of any part of that system, for the reduction of the property tax instead of the reduction of the utility rate or rates?" R. A. Cox, instructor in economics. C. A.

Duval, instructor In economics. After stating the three questions, the letter continues: "We state quite frankly that we are not inclined to support any candidate who docs not answer the first two questions definitely in the affirmative and the last question Signers of the letter were: C. P. Patterson, professor of government. C.

D. Simmons, professor of business statistics. E. E. Hale, associate professor of economics.

E. T. Mitchell, associate professor of philosophy. J. L.

Mecham, associate professor of government. Charles A. Timm, associate professor of government. Both Tickets Fire Away In City Race Both political factions in the coming city election of April 3 girded their campaign armor for the week Monday night as the Citizens ticket' broadcast their message to the people of Austin in a radio talk by Jack E. Finks, past president of the Young Men's Business league, while the opposing ticket candidates carried their appeals personally to the negro voters of the city in a rally at the negro First Baptist church at 14th and Red River streets.

The campaign finds aligned the Citizens ticket composed of M. Bartholomew, J. R. Reed, E. C.

Rather, J. O. Andrewartha and V. Moore against the Independent ticket composed, of Simon Gillis, Charles F. Alford, Tom Miller, Hilliare F.

Xitschke and Oswald Wolf. Two lone independents are in the race making a bid for places on the council these being Walter Simms, Austin fish merchant, and Tom Gregory, furniture dealer. The Independent ticket will hold a mass meeting Tuesday night at Baker school where the people of Hyde Park have invited all candidates in the council race to speak. The Citizens ticket will take to the radio again Tuesday night to make its bid for votes. Tom Miller announced the other ticket will go on the air in addition to its mass meeting programs.

The radio talk for this ticket will be from 8:15 to 8:30 p. m. Open Flow and Cessation Order for Thursday May Be Delayed Other Commissioners At Washington Parley Ferguson Says F. D. Need Not Be Troubled On Oil Control By the Associated Press James V.

Allred, attorney general, ruled Monday night that Lon A. Smith, chairman of the Texas railroad commission, could not enter a valid order requiring all wells in the East Texs field to be opened wide for a two hour period next Thursday. Allred told Smith that the order, would not be valid due to the absence from the state of the other commissioners. The commissioners had planned to order the approximately 10,000 wells opened to capacity for two hours next Thursday so that they might determine well potentials for probably use in a proration order based on potentials. Smith Wires Colleagues The test originally had been scheduled for Monday, but the or- THOMPSON, TERRELL TO RUSH TO TEXAS WASHINGTON, March 27.

C. V. Terrell and E. O. Thompson of the Texas railroad commission planned Monday night to leave at once for Texas that their body might sit in quorum considering the situation the the East Texas oil field complicated by a disputed order for a two hour open flow test.

They said they would leave Tuesday morning, arriving Friday morning. The commissioners offered no suggestions in the situation, saying only that the body would meet after their return and indicating they would make no attempt to act in the meantime. der was rescinded because of widespread objections to it. Smith Immediately wird C. V.

Terrell and Ernest O. Thompson, the other two commissioners, who are In Washington, and told them of the attorney general's ruling. He asked for their suggestions regarding a future course to be pursued. Smith pointed out that possibly Terrell or Thompson would return to Austin in time for the contemplated order to be validly Issued. He said that the order would not be issued unless one of them returned to Texas by that time.

They are attending an oil conference in Washington. Intended to Return Friday Smith said Thompson and Terrell Intended to return here Friday. It was likely that if they did not get here sooner the order would be delayed until then. Allred held that "the jurisdiction of state officers is generally only co-extensive with the territory of the state and, in the absence of statutory authority, official power cannot accompany tho person be yond the bounds of the sovereignty which has conferred it." James E. Ferguson, husband-ad- (Continued on page 3 col.

i) San Marcos Postmaster Is Named by Farley WASHINGTON, March 27. (A James A. Farley, postmaster general, Monday appointed Oran W. Cliett as acting postmaster at San Marcos, Texas. Hambone's Meditations PAT c5MTMAJ, Hf.

USETER Be A CoILecToH, si hlovf he 5ot vs. Heart Tocowt Rtfuj'tfEAfl TrYiaj' To sell me Jap Planes Bomb American Church Near Chinese Wall Nine Natives Killed, U.S. Consul Reports, Telling Of Double Attack By the ITnftfd Pr-M PEIPING, China, March 27. Japanese airplanes bombed the American Methodist mission property at Taotowying, inside the Great Wall of China, United States Consul Gen. Frank Lock-hart, at Tientsin, reported Monday.

Nine Chinese men, women and children were killed. Lockhart informed the United States minister. Nelson T. Johnson, that two Americans, the Rev. and Mrs.

Kautto. were the only foreigners at the mission during the raid. His dispatch said they narrowly escaped death. The village of Taotowying is east of Felplng. The property belongs to the Methodist Episcopal church, South.

The Rev. Kautto informed Lock-hart that last Friday an airplane circled the mission, over which a large- United States flag was flying. He said the first bomb dropped within 20 feet of the mission residence, and blew two holes in the compound's walls. A chimney was demolished. The missionary reported a second airplane arrived an hour later and dropped two more bombs, shattering windows and scarring the walls of buildings.

Emperor Proclaims Brotherhood of Nations TOKIO, March 27. (UP) With a declaration that his nation has no intention of withdrawing from the fraternity of nations, young Emperor Hirohito of Japan Monday formally announced the empire's withdrawal from the league of nations. "It is our desire to promote mutual confidence between our empire and all other powers, and make known the cause- of justice throughout the world," Hirohito, govern, mental and spiritual leader of subjects, said in a rescript from Chioyda palace. Japan, he said, left the league with regret. The rescript declared maintenance of Manchoukuo as an independent state was necessary to world peace.

League censure of Japan's Manchuria policy was responsible for the withdrawal. Construction of Federal Buildings Not Let Delayed Treasury Department Waitt for F. 0. to Announce Policy WASHINGTON, March 27. Ail construction of federal build Ings yet to be contracted for will le held up by the treasury until Pres.

Roosevelt has defined his new building program, which Is to be financed on bond issues rather than by appropriation from current revenues. This was made clear Monday in informed quarters. All buildings already under con tract will proceed, but the many bids received for new federal structures, or for sites to erect them on will not be acted upon until the new construction plan is framed. This action Includes the federal building planned in Austin. A bid for the site has been accepted.

plans for the building have not y-t been drawn. Page Brothers, Austin architects, are in charge. Independents Break From Main Body and Hold Stormy Session Ickes Optimistic Upon Success of Conference I Delegates Want to Solve Problems of Industry, He Declares By th Asaocinltil P-ew WASHINGTON, March 27-After a day marked by heated clashes between divergent factions, representatives of oil producers and the governors of producing states worked piivately Monday night in search of proposals to be placed before the administration-sponsored oil conference Tuesday. One faction, labeling itself as "uncontrolled independent producers," however, broke away from the general group and Monday held a stormy protest meeting at a hotel. Its leader, John B.

Elliott of the Independent Petroleum association of California, maintained the larger companies were putting forward a program that would ''work to the detriment of the real independents and to the people." He led his group out of a meeting Sunday, asserting it was "packed in the interest of the major oil companies." Secy, Ickes, who called the conference in an effort to see if some iron-clad agreement could be obtained to curtail over-production, Monday night expressed himself optimistic, nevertheless, after meeting with a committee of 15 appointed by a majority of the oil representatives. "The delegates as a whole have shown a real disposition to solve the problem confronting them," Ickes said. "And in view of the (Continued on page 2 col. 7) 5 San Antonio Firemen Hurt as Truck Topples SAN ANTONIO, March 27. (UP) Five San Antonio firemen were injured, three seriously, when the truck on which they were speeding to a lumber yard fire skidded on a slippery street, crashed into a telephone pole, and overturned here Monday.

D.A.R.'s 34th Conference Meet in Mineral Wells' MINERAL WELLS, March 27. iJP) The 34th annual state conven- tion of the Daughters of the Amer- I loan Revolution convened here Mon- day with Mrs. W. P. H.

McFadden of Beaumont presiding. After the formal opening session, Mrs. O. E. Baker of Abilene presided I at a conference of directors on chil- dren of the American revolution.

WILL ROGERS rgys, Htor Tit AuMUn ArruneaK NOGALES, March 27. It's what Western towns used to be but It still is. Had a fine visit with Gen. Pershing at Tucson, and mighty glad to relate to you that he Is looking fine and feeling much better. It's an education to talk to him on Europe, who have we got that should know more.

Saw Mrs. Greenway, Arizona's mother superior, who will perhaps, and should be, Arizona's new corigresswoman. Arizona has a fine old character for Its new governor. He is a country doctor, brought 10.000 babies Into the world and when they got to voting age, ran, for office. Arizona's legislature passed its bills and adjourned, then somebody accidentally read 'em, and they was all unconstitutional and cockeyed, so they want another session, but the old Doc says, "no they are liable to get 'em worse than that next time." There is a man that not only knows maternity, but knows state con.

gressmen. Yours, WILL ROGERS. By the Auociated 1'rea rate. Ferguson appeared before the committee at the request of Rep. J.

C. Duvall of Fort Worth. The former governor and chief advisor of the woman governor asserted that by law the chief executive was chief budget officer of the state and that it was the duty of the executive office to do all in Its power to balance the state's Income and expenses. Ferguson asserted that reliance for state revenue could not be placed In the present art valorem tax and that this form of taxation had proven a failure. He estimated that unless the sales tax was approved, ttie deficit by the end of the next fiscal year would be more than fifteen million By th United PreM HOUSTON, March 27.

Grim South Texas peace officers, seeking two negro brutes who assaulted a Houston girl after killing her escort, held nine blacks in jail Monday night on suspicion. A man hunt continued in several cities and in heavily wooded sections about Houston. The negroes' victims were Miss Adele Torian, 24, and William W. Porch, 24. Bloodhounds used in the first few hours of the search were penned up Monday night but the heavily armed officers did not relax their own efforts.

All nine of the negroes held were said to correspond in some way to the descriptions furnished by Miss Torian. The body of Porch, formerly of Johnston, whom one negro shot and killed, was taken Monday night to San Antonio for cremation. Porch was shot near the heart when he pleaded that the blacks show mercy to Miss Torian. Germans Order Boycott Upon Jewish Products "'ir Nazis Accuse Jews Of Starting Propaganda Campaign By the United Presi BERLIN, March policy of stern retaliatory measures against Jews believed guilty of spreading "atrocity propaganda" abroad was enunciated by leaders of the nazi party Monday. United Press understood that the fascist controlled government of Chancellor Adolf Hitler was prepared to countenance the retaliation in the exact ratio which foreign government's countenance the socalled atrocity propaganda.

'The retaliation is to take the form of a boycott of Jewish shops AL JOINS JEWS IN GERMAN PROTEST NEW YORK, March 27. UP) Alfred E. Smith told thousands of Jews, massed in Madison Hnuare Garden Monday night in protest against anti-Semitism of the German Hitler government, that the "only thing to do Is to drag it out in the open sunlight and give it the same treatment we gave the ku klux klan." Joining representatives of many races and creeds at the indignation meeting called by the American Jewish congress, Smith said "it makes no difference to me whether it is a brown shirt or a night shirt." and goods, sharp reduction in the number of Jewish students permitted to attend universities, and curtailing of licenses to Jewish physicians and lawyers. The party Intends to proceed with this policy without delay. A Munich report said special campaign committees would be organ- (Continued on page 2 col.

3) Texas Woman Makes Bond FORT WORTH, March 27. VP) Bond of $1000 was made Sunday by Mrs. Ida L. Hunsucker, who has been held here for Wise county on a charge of accessory to the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Joe Brown of Rhome two months ago. State Ranger Sid Kelso, to whom Mrs.

Hunsucker was released, said she would be permitted to return to her home In Quitaque, Briscoe county. U. T. Boy's Mother Dies NOCONA, 27. Mrs.

W. D. Hearn. 42. died at her home here early Monday.

A son, Glynn Hearn, is a student at the University of Texas. dollars and that attempts to raise revenue from tax on the real prop erty would fall ten million short of the state's needs. Ferguson attributed present conditions mainly to the breakdown of agriculture and predicted that the passage of a sales tax would enhance farm values and cause a revival of Interest in and stabilization of the agricultural industry. "This would be an Incentive to give agriculture another chance," Ferguson Btated. He predicted that unless steps were taken to meet the state deficit and current expenses that state warrants would not be worth more than 40 cents on the dollar on Jan.

1, next. I 1 the administration's A ilan for aiding the debt burdsned 'armer. The plan paralleled, never-heless, the program discussed at he White House on the farm mortgage situation. t. In sending his farm agency consolidation plan to congress, the president named Henry Morgen-b hau, present head of the farm 4 ioard, to be governor of the new tfarm credit administration which Into nneratlnn' 61 davs hence, provided a majoiity of both houses ioes not vote the proposal down within that time.

oi Through this new government 14 1- A tVl ftUUl'. HIV licoiutui nut imion oonar rennamiuB vi he will propose to congress iater this week. The program submitted by Wallace Monday would have the refinancing of farm mortgages handled ny the machinery of federal land hanks and the regional agricultural credit corporations, using reconstruction corporation funds. The credit corporations would be authorized to make loans direct to farm debtors for paying interest, amortization Installments and taxes for a period of not more than two ijears. i Federal land banks using Recon- (Continued on page 3, column 6) F.

D. Points Way For Senate Action On Pending Bills ftobinson Says Employment I Measure Probably Will Be Passed Tuesday I tu Auuvintat Prmm t- V7 program of procedure in the ate on the Roosevelt farm and relief bills was agreed to late Monday at a conference between the president and senate leaders. Sen. Robinson of Arkansas, the party pilot, predicted passage Tuesday of the pending reforestation bilj. He said the question of removing the existing 15 per cent limitation on relief advances which frnight be made by the Reconstruc tion Finance corporation probably would be taken up as an amendment to the reforestation bill.

It was agreed to consider the 1500.000,000 direct relief measure introduced Monday separately. Robinson predicted the farm commodity bill now before the agriculture committee would reach the lenata by the first of next week. Sen. Harrison of Mississippi. Chairman of the finance committee, and Sec.

Wallace also participated in the White House conference. Alcohol-Gas to Be Tested March 27. I Plans to permit several Illinois oil companies to test mixing alcohol gasoline for motor fuel were announced Monday by James M. Doran. commissioner of industrial alcohol.

The commissioner said the alco hol must be withdrawn under per- mit, its use supervised and only denatured alcohol used. He said there would be no relaxation In any restrictions. A GOOD IDEA SWAP Swap your services, your time, your unused possessions for tie things you need and want. And there are jUHt turn to in the Classified Section of The American-, Statesman Temperance by Legislation Failure, Wets Tell Lawmakers By the Associated Prei The house state affairs com mittee voted a favorable report Monday night on the bill to le galize 3.2 per cent beer in Texas. A roll call vote was not taken, committeemen who voted "aye" outnumbering those voting "no on an oral expression.

Rep. John M. Mathis of Hoai. ton declared the bill would be ri ported favorably. The committee's action came af ter a hearing at which proponent and opponents of the bill appeared.

Attiem Webb Opposes Dr. Atticus Webb of Dallas, superintendent of the Texas Anti-Sa loon league, appeared against passage of a bill that would "bring saloons back to Texas," and Dr. R. J. Boyle of San Antonio, long-tim anti-prohibitionist, argued for passage of a bill that would declare beverages of that alcoholic content non-toxicating.

He quoted from many court decisions to show that the congress or the legislature could define Intoxicating liquors. Replying to questions. Dr. Webb said Pres. Roosevelt "did not know what it was all about" when he advocated passage of the beer bill.

was applauded by his following top that statement, Boyle drew cheers when he said vVebb had voted for the republican candidate for president and nor "reflected' on the intelligence of th president of the United States and congress." Political questions were brought into the hearing as two or threa opponents of the bili were asked If they did not support Herbert Hoover for president last year and In 1928. Moore Applauded Rep. Weaver Moore of Houst-jn aaked that question of Dr. H. K.

Taylor of Dallas. Dr. Taylor replied that he voted for Mr. Hoover but that he did not see what that had to do with the subject under consideration. "I merely wanted to show that you're the type of man who voted for the man who for four years ran the country to the dogs," Moor said amid applause from the galleries.

Moore told Dr. Taylor that he had rather take the word of Franklin D. Roosevelt as to what constituted an intoxicating beverage than tb word of "you and Atticus Webb and Tom Love." Not Opposed to Submission Moore obtained an admission from Dr. Taylor that he had no objection to the question of repeal ot constitutional state prohibition being submitted to the people. Th Houston representative has Introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to provide for substi tution of local option for state pro hioition.

"This attempt to bring back per cent beer is direct nullification of the state constitution," Dr. Taylor stated. "We're willing to meej; you on the repeal of the state prohibition amendment and the ISth amendment but we are unalterably opposed to nullification." Dr. W. H.

McKencl of Austin urged tie legislature not to act o4 of beer until the people of Texas had been given an opportunity to express their views on repeal of the 18th Labor Man (or Bill Arguments for th bill were mads by George Slater of Austin, executive secretary of the state federation of labor, and D. A. White of San Antonio, representing the Crusaders. "You can get all the beer vau want illegally now," Slater said. "But we want the right to get tt legally." Slater stressed the contention that legalization of beer would furnish employment to a large number of persons.

White emphasized lie revena feature of the besr bill. "Temperance by legislation Is ft failure." White said. "It now Is time to try temperance by taxa (Continued on page 2 col. 1) Assault by Auto Charged FORT WORTH, March ST. (UP) H.

H. Shoffner. 17, Grapevir-; Monday wan charged with assault by automobile after Mrs. C. I', Harlow, pedestrian, was knocked down by a car that leaped a curb and onto a sidewalk.

Pipeline Bill Reported' The house committee on municipal and private corporations Monday night voted against a favorsbl report on the pipeline divorcement bill. 12 to 4. The bill would r'Hlr a complete separation of all pipelines from, oil cotcpaniea, (Continued on page 3 col. 1) Col. Zilker At Mass Meeting For Council Ticket Col.

Andrew J. Zilker, Austin capitalist, at a speaking Monday night endorsed the city political ticket composed of Councilman C. F. Alford and Simon Gillis and three new candidates, Tom Miller, Hilliare F. Xitschke and Oswald Wolf.

Col. Zilker's address climaxed the meeting and came after Miller. Gillis, Nitschka and Wolf had spoken in behalf of their candidacies. Walter Simms and Tom C. Gregory, independent candidates, also spoke to the mixed gathering of white and negro citizens.

Councilman Alford was ill and unable to attend the meeting, Mr. Gillis announced. Mr. Zilker pleaded that the two present councilmen who are running for re-election be returned to office and that the electorate name th- three new men. Miller, Nltschke and Wolf, as councilmen.

"The plain peopie are beginning to see the mistakes made in the past by those in charge and they will demand an accounting on April 3 by those responsible for oversights," Col. Zilker declared. "There has been a wave of protest sweeping the entire United States. The people are demanding a change, and a change will be made." Tom C. Gregory, one of the In-dfpendent candidates who made his first political speech Monday night, deciared he also had "the big (Continued on page 2 col.

t) hearing promised for Tuesday evening cn the Greathouse mortgage moratorium bill. A sub-eommitteo of the senate civil Jurisprudence committee, composed of Sen. Albert Stone, Frank Murphy and Ernest Feldbaum. has the bill pending before it. The measure already ha pBssefl the houie, Mr.

Armstrong said W. Raliey. Oscar Calloway and he hsd been chosen, tentatively, to argue for the bill before the com mittee. and that this selection would be subject to confirmation Tuesday at tbe meeting. Light Plant And Abattoir Issues Enter Campaign The water and light plant and the municipal abattoir were injected as issues in the coming city election on April 3 in a radio talk delivered Monday night by Jack E.

Finks, past president of the Young Men's Business league, who spoke in behalf of the can didacies of the five men on the Citizens' ticket who were drafted for service by 1200 voters of the city nominating them for office. Finks exhorted the voters to consider carefully on the men who will have charge of spending $2,500,000 in city money next year, and urged them to consider the candidacies of C. M. Bartholomew. J.

R. Reed, E. C. Rather, C. W.

Moore and J. O. Andrewartha "as the five men who have made no promise, except to give the people the best and most economical administration possi ble." "These five men." he declared, will Bee to it that the power trust does not get a strangle hold on our water and light plant. If It ever gets a power contract gets one ten tacle around the plant. It will ul timately strangle it to death.

It has its lilies built all around the city; can you imagine any reason other than to be ready to serve power to the city when it can edge in or get a foot-hold? Fail to provide a double power unit so that when ctne fails to do the work the (Continued on page 2 col. 4) House Committee Votes 10 to 8 Against Sales Tax, Despite Jim's Plea 7 Texas Farmers' Holiday Association Will Rally at Driskill Hotel Today The house committe on revenue and taxation Monday night voted an unfavorable report to the administration bill to levy a sales tax, the action being taken despite plea of James E. Ferguson, husband of Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson, that the bili was the only solution he could perceive that would lead the state out of financial distress.

The vote was 10 to and the committee fullowed its course by voting unfavorably on two additional sales tax proposals. A fourth sales tax bill, however, remains before the committee and it will be considered at a future date. It provides fnr a tax only on retail sales and for refunds to counties and cities to reduce the ad valorem tax George W. Armstrong of Fct Worth said here Monday that the Texas Farmers' Holiday association would hold its rally here Tuesday In the crystal ballroom of the Driskill hotel. The meeting will begin at 10 a.

m. How many will attend can not foretold, he said. But he had bfn encouraged by telephone reports from the Panhandle and Rio Grande valley, and from Centra: Texas, to the extent of asking the hotel to provide chairs for B00. The mee.tinf is preliminary to 1.