The Daily Advertiser from Lafayette, Louisiana • 1

RAIL GAIN Net operating Income of the first 39 railroads reporting for October continues to register substantial gains over comparable figures last year. THE WEATHER Generally fair and cooler in Louisiana today. Moderate southwest to northwest winds on the coast. At Volume XXII, No .185 CONSOLIDATED LAFAYETTE CAXETT July ist. taai LAFAYETTE, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935 rULU WIRI HEWS SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS Hint Greater Action In War Abroad Soon Indication Based On Ethiopian Claims, Forecast Of New Type Of Italian Campaign More Rebels Surrender In Brazil Revolt Move By Regiment Of Infantry Is Third Capitulation Of Revoiters In Week ELECTRIC HOME.

FARM AUTHORITY HEAD RESIGNS Cookes Resignation Confirmed By Jesse H. Jones Who Declines Comment On Reasons LAWYER FINED OVER FEE FOR VETERANS CASE William Wolff Smith n-ed 4. JONESBORO, Ark Nov. 28 Rail Incomes Still Showing Improvement Net Operating Income Of First 39 Roads Reporting Register Substantial Gains NEW YORK, Nov. 28.

VP) Net operate Ing income of the first 39 railroads re porting for October continues to register substantial gains over comparable fig ures last year Net operating income totaled $43,134, 792 in this month against last year, a gain of 65 per cent. The October gross was $174,992,323 compared with $149,629,683 a year agd up 16.9 per cent. Ten months net operating income ad vanced 2.6 per cent over 1934, fron $1,405,241,800 to $1,442,035,129. Gross Income for this period totaled $216,629,899 this year, a 2.3 per cent gain over last( years $211,807,320. By Helen Welshimer W2 thank God, again for crops ingathered; For autumn that fulfilled the green springs vow.

And gave us lavishly of Thy rich bounty; Thou hast not left the earth again we bow Our hearts in gratitude for sun on meadows. And wind in trees, and rain tossed down the night; For kindliness and friends who have not failed us. For open fires, love, laughter, morning light. WE thank Thee, God, for that deep faith implanted Within our hearts that sometime stress will end: That when the time of tribulation ceases, Thy gracious Hand, outstretched again, will send The manna and the guiding posts to lead us, The flame by night, the deep clouds for the day. -We thank Thee, through the sorrows that beset us, We still may know that Thou hast planned our way WE bring Thee gratitude as once our fathers.

New-settled on a barren, lonely shore. Sang psalms to Thee because a quest was finished Their praise becomes our song forevermore. Now in the time when summer seas are faded. When red and gold burn dry the autumn leaves, When Harvest through Thy grace has been accorded. Dear God, we.

too, come bringing in our sheaths! I RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 28 The Third Regiment of Brazilian Infantry in rebellion against the government since before dawn, surrendered In its barracks Wednesday afternoon, leaving federal authorities apparently in control throughout the nation. The surrender of the Third Regiment was the second capitulation of Rebels within the capital today and the Third In the nation. Earlier, Loyal aviators bombed the aviation school which had been captured by Rebelling soldiers and Federal trops had entered Natal, held by Rebels since last Saturday. Government officials said the backbone of the Rebellion, which they claimed was Communist-inspired, was broken.

Some of the Res. el leaders at Natal fled from the victorious loyal forces In a German commercial airplane which they commandered. About 500 Rebels were reported to have escaped from Natal aboard the S. S. Santos of the Lloyd-Brazllierlo line SEYMOUR WEISS POSTS BOND IN TAXATION CASE Bail For New Orleans Man Is Signed By Peter Jung, Another N.

0. Hotel Man NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 28 VP) Seymour Weiss, manager of the Roosevelt Hotel and former treasurer for the Huey Long political machine, posted $10,000 bond Wednesday In federal district court here on a grand Jury indictment returned against him charging conspiracy to evade the payment of income tax. Mr.

Weiss' bond was signed by Peter Jung, another New Orleans hotel man. Mr. Weiss was Indicted jointly with Joseph Meyers, local Insurance broker and Mike M. Moss, a former official of the Union Indemnity Company, now In receivership. The Joint Indictment accused the three men of conspiracy to defeat and evade the Internal Revenue Department by concealing Income obtained from "performance bonds written for road contractors whose bids were accepted by the State Highway Department.

The indictment charged that Mr. Weiss received 20 per cent commission on the bonds and did not report it as Income. SAYS BOATSWAIN YAS INTOXICATED AT BOAT FIRE Testmiony About Member Of Liner Morro Castle Staff Is Given At New York Trial NEW YORK. Nov. 28 VP) Testimony that the boatswain on the liner Morro Castle was intoxicated when fire broke out on the vessel September 8, 1934, was given Wednesday by a member of the crew at the trial of two of the ships officers and others on charges of criminal negligence.

"He was Intoxicated and In a daze, William Torres said of Boatswain Harry Urblch In telling of events aboard the vessel after the fire broke out. Torres said he bad gone to the boatswain's quarters after hearing the fire alarm which, he said, was his first knowledge of trouble on the liner. Then he went to a fire hydrant on the boat deck but there was no water coming from It and he ran to another hydrant. There was no hose attached to this one, Torres testified, so he took a hose from a nearby rack and attached It. It burst when the water was turned on, he said.

(By The Associated Press) An Ethiopian announcement of further victories on the southern frontier and Italian predictions of a new type of Italian campaign in north indicate the possibility of Increased action in the Italo-Ethiopian war In the near future. Ethoplan sources said Italian columns In Ogaden Province not only had been defeated but that Ethiopian troops actually had carried the war into Italian Somaliland. The new commander of the Italian armies. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, arrived In Asmara ready to begin more mobile operations, according to his officers. The said he would cut down previously unwieldly units Into flying columns, dispose of much of the motorization which the Italians previously had used, and try to smash into the Interior of Ethlo-opla with "flying wedges which would be supplied by pack trains made up of camels and mules.

At the same time new troops movements were reported in Rome and It was understood that many of the 100,000 soldiers recently granted furloughs had been called back Into the army. VETS SENT FROM WASHINGTON TO WORK AT HOME Many Already Have Left For Relief Jobs And Others To Go In Short Time WASHINGTON. Nov. 28 VP) Whether or not the motive was to prevent any more bonus marches on the capital, more than 500 veterans have been sent from Washington back to work relief jobs at their homes. WPA officials, making that fact known, say 300 others who had arrived here in recent months will leave in the next few days.

They said the move was "in keeping with the program policy of breaking up Transient camps all over the country. Harry L. Hopkins, relief chief, has made other atempts to prevent any large gathering of veterans here. Some were sent Into southern FERA work camps in Sowth Carolina and Florida. Among these were more than 200 killed recently when a hurricane swept the Florida Keys.

The last veterans to leave got railroad fares to their legal residences and letters to local WPA officials directing that they be given work. CAN TAKE OUT FISCAL LOSSES IN PAYING TAX Ruling Regarding Payment Of State Income Tax Is Made By Judge Nat W. Bond NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28 VP) Judge Nat W. Bond in civil district court ruled Wednesday that a corporation might deduct fiscal losses In the payment of the state corporation franchise tax.

The ruling was given In a case In which the State of Louisiana sought to collect the franchise tax for 1934 on the entire capital stock of $276,000 Issued by the Bisso Realty and Investment Company. The company contended that during the fiscal year 1934 It had suffered losses of $108,807.45 and that there was only $167,192 55 in outstanding capital stock on which the tax should be paid. The state counsel contended that the corporation should pay its tax on the entire capital stock whether losses had been sustained or not. But Judge Bond upheld the company, declaring that under his interpretation of the franchise act. losses were deductible.

AVIATION BOGEY IS BELIEVED TO NEARJOLUTION Invention Designed Against Formation Of Ice On Propellers Is Perfected WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 VP) One of aviations big bogey the formation of ice on porpellors apparently Is about overcome. The Commerce Department has announced perfection of an invention, known as the "slinger ring, which Is designed to feed a stady streamer of anti-Ice-solution to propellors of flying aircraft. It does not, however, do anything about ice on wings. The Department began work on the propellor problem in July and today credited I.

R. Metcalf, one of Its engineers, with suggesting the "slinger ring. The device has been tested and the Department said one airline had ordered 80 slingers for Its 30 twin-engined passenger planes. eral Judge John F. Martineau as $400 fine here against William Smith, Washington, D.

attor former veterans administration counsel, on a charge of collecting cessive fee for legal service In ot disability compensation for a vet Failing in a motion to arrest Jud Smith gave notice of appeal to th Circuit Court of Appeals, indica final ruling would be sought, contention that the 1933 national omy act repealed a section of the World War veterans act which limited attorney's fees In such cases to $10 each. The former general counsel for the Veterans Administration was granted a $500 appeal bond. By agreement, outcome of the appeal wil be awaited before any further action Is taken in the case of Ernest L. Holloway, Corning, attorney, who pleaded guilty to similar charges yesterday when Judge Martineau found Smith guilty. The Indictment returned against Smith was based on a $569 19 consent Judgment which he obtained In Clay county (Ark.) Chancery court aaglnst Arthur E.

York, Corning veteran. Holloway claimed that he himself collected no fee from the veteran, but acted simply as Smiths attorney in pressing the fee claim against the veteran. MORE LEGAL AID FOR SECURITIES COMMISSION Staff Expanded To Direct Intense, Spreading Court Fight Over Legality Of Law WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. VP) The legal staff of the securities commission has been expanded to direct the Intense, spreading court fight over constitutionality of the utility holding company law.

Robert H. Jackson, general counsel for the Internal Revenue Bureau, was drafted special trial counsel In the New Deals effort to compel registration of holding companies. Facing Jackson and John J. Burns, the commissions own counsel was a growing pile of lncluding four by major companies, all seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional and the commission lnjolned from enforcing registration by December 1. The law would regulate the companies, limit their sphere of operations and outlaw those called "unnecessary." The commission itself moved independently yesterday for its own court test, bringing suit in New York to force the big Electric Bond S-iare Company and five of Its Intermediate holding units to register.

The commission left no doubt that It would stake the laws constitutional chances on this test case. It also appealed to utility companies to register and stop the multlpillcity of injunction suits. It said companies could register without the sacrifice of any legal or constitutional rights. CLASH OCCURS ON TENNESSEE ROADPROJECT Foreman On Construction Job Is Shot In Face, And Condition Stated Serious DUCKTOWN, Nov. 28.

VP) A group of men who claimed out of town laborers had been hired for road work clashed Wednesday with D. A. Crippen, Knoxville contractor several others, at work on a highway project near the North Carolina line. D. W.

McFadden, 45, of Ashville, N. a foreman of the construction project, was brought to the hospital. He had been shot in the face and is in a serious condition. Mr. Crippen was badly beaten.

P. C. Simpson, a foreman and a truck driver, whose name was not learned here, was also beaten. The Crippen Construction Company had contended that members of tbe group did not have relief cards as required of persons employed on the road project. Lie Detector BEAUMONT, Nov.

28 VP) Beaumont police use a "lie detector all their own to extra the truth from youthful suspects of such crimes as bicycle theft. The suspect Is led into a dark room and confronted by a box which flashes one of four diagnoses as he answers questions. The sequence of the flashes, officers say, usually Is lie, lie maybe and finally truth It works, they say. Santa Claus Arrives ROCK HILL S. Nov.

28 VP) Santa Claus has arrived for Frank Walker, 51-year-old negro tenant farmer with a family of 10. Walker has Just received a $100 award from a seed company for growing the largest watermelon last season. It weighed 92 1-2 pounds. WASHINGTON. Nov.

28 (JP) Confirming reports that Morris L. Cooke had resigned as president of the electric home and farm authority. Chairman Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruction Corporation declined comment on the resaons. He said he had read 'that theresigna-tion followed a disagreement over the repayment period and the security to be offered for electric appliance loans, but he would neither confirm nor deny them.

How soon the EHFA board would meet to select Cooke's successor, Jones said he did not know. Unconfirmed reports were that Cooke resigned about a week ago after Jones disagreed with his contention that appliance sales should be financed on a long-term basis with only the equipment Itself as security. It was said unofficially that Jones held the view that depreciation of the appliances would make them of little value as security for long term loans. The RFC provides funds for financing appliance sales. The EHFA board is composed largely of RFC officials.

Associates of Cooke, wbo also heads the rural electrification administration, said he had resigned from EHFA because Its work was predominantly urban and not directly connected with the work of rural electrification. They denied he had quit a row over long-term loans. Cooke is vacationing In Pennsylvania. He will continue as a director of EHFA, but devotes most of his time to the REA. RFC officials said it was possible no successor to Cooke would be chosen immediately.

The organization could function indefinitely, it was said, under the general direction of the board as a whole. TWO SEATTLE POLICEMEN DIE IN GUN ATTACK Are Shot When They Surprise Three Safecrackers In Western City Before Daylight SEATTLE. Nov. 28 VP) A second policeman victim of safe crackers Is dead while six members of a suspected "Blue-coat Burglar Ring Insist they know nothing of recent vault lootings here. Patrolman Theodore E' Stevens, 34, died Wednesday of a gunshot in the abdomen.

Patrolman Trent A. Sickles, 31, was killed outright after the two surprised three safecrackers before daylight Tuesday. The six policeman burglar suspects, with Sergt. J. T.

Lee of the National Guard and Charles O. Marcband, county road worker, were questioned by Prosecutor Warren G. Magnuson. Another suspect. Patrolman R.

C. Mc-Wade, was fataly injured when he dived from a top hunk to the floor of his cell. THREE BANDITS ROB ARK. BANK HORATIO. Nov.

28 VP) Three bandits robbed the Horatio State Bank Wednesday of an unestimated amount of cash and escaped toward Oklahoma. C. E. Hendrix, cashier of the bank, said he had not been able to determine the amount of loot taken in the holdup. Hendrix said that he and his wife and B.

D. McSwain of the state highway department were forced to He on the floor while two of the three gunmen scooped up all cash In sight and fled. The gunmen fled toward Eagletown, pursued by a posse of officers headed by Sheriff Jess Pickens of Sevier county. crop whereby to each farmer who would agree to acreage control In 1936 a loan of 10 cents per pound, basis middling 7-8 Inch, would be granted upon their allotments under the Bankhead act and an adjustment payment would be made to the extent of the difference between the average price of middling In the 10 designated southern spot markets, on the date of the sale of his cotton, and 12 cents. As prices have, since the beginning of the season, ruled consistently above the loan price of 10 cents, the distribution of the crop has been permitted and under the Influence of an eager demand It has moved with unusual rapidity.

The report said a more hopeful feeling prevailed in cotton circles for the coming year. As a matter of fact, the report concluded, the government now holds most of the premium cotton and as it seems safe to conclude that the trade will require some of it before supplies from another crop become available. The trade Is principally interested at the present time in learning the price at which this cotton will be for sale. ASKS ROOSEVELT ANSWER CHARGES OVER JEW DEAL Talmadge Makes Request To President, In Issue Of Govern-i ors Personal Publication ATLANTA, Nov. 28 (fl) President Roosevelt was asked Wednesday by Gov.

Talmadge to answer three charges against the New Deal In. his speech here Frl-day. The charges are In the current Issue ot the governor's personal organ "The Staes man, a weekly. The president Is to speak at a "home coming" celebration between 1 :30 and 2 :00 p. Central Standard Time Fri 1 day.

The event was arranged In hid honor by the Georgia Congressional de legation. Governor Talmadge has been left off the official program but Is expected tqi attend and occupy a section of seats on a stage reserved for visiting governor and 6tate house officials. Talmadge, long a critic of the admin istration, asked Mr. Roosevelt to answe the following: "1. That the Tennessee Authority haa copied Communism by refusing to pery mlt denominational churches to be builty at Norris, Tenn.

"2. That Assistant Secretary of Agrl culture Tugwell has a staff of 12,089 drawing $1,750,000 monthly to create 5, 012 relief jobs paying $300,000 per month, month. "3. That the AAA and the Bankhead bill are unconstitutional and unfair to the farmers of the nation. The charges were detailed over th governor's signature, and then Talmadg added: The president wll lbe here In Atlanta on Friday, November 29th, to speak.

wish that he would answer the abov accusations. ATLANTA. No. 28 President Roo sevelt replied Wednesday to Gov. Tal madges welcome.

"Thank you for your note, Mr. Roose velt said In his brief letter. I am glacl to be back In Georgia and I am looking forward, as always, to a very restful and pleasant visit. The governor, a critic of Roosevelt po llcles, sent his executive Secretary Carl ton Mobley, to Warm Springs Monday with a note to the president extending Talmadge's official welcome to Georgia. Talmadge has been given no official place on the program of the Roosevelt homecoming celebration here Friday, but he has said he would attend.

Is to sit with governors from surround lng states. WANT DECISION AGAINST HOLDING COMPANY ACT American Water Works And Electric Company, Seeking Court Ruling WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 The American Water Works and Electric Co. has asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court to declare the Utilities Holding Company Act unconstitutional and restrain federal officials from enforcing It. The new complaint followed closely the form of a suit filed In tbe same court yesterday by the North American which also asked a permanent injunction and a declaration of unconstitu-tlonallty.

The American Water Works claimed that damage to it and Its subsidiaries would be enormous If It registered with the securities commission which later, on the basis of that registration, could decide whether the company waa necessary. The court was told that American Water Works' Investments were In excess of $105,500,000, and that 70 per cent of th total represents voting stock of other corporations. Arguments against constitutionality of the act Included contentions that Id could not be supported under the Inter state Commerce clause of the constitution; that It was unlawful delegation of legislative power; that It subjected North American to deprivation of property without due process of law, called for excessive penalties, attempted to usurp states powers and subjected the plaintiff to unreasonable search and seizure. STRONG ALLY IN MOVE AGAINST U.S. INOLYMPICS Ernest Lee "Jahncke, One Of Committee Members, Opposes Participation NEW YORK, Nov.

28 Pv-l The opposition to American participation In the Olympic games In Germany has gained a strong ally In Ernest Lee Jahncke, one of the three members of the International Olympic Committee and a former assistant secretary of thq navy. Jahncke. of German descent himself, vlgorougsly opposed sending of American athletes to the Berlin Olympiad In letters addressed to Count Henri BaUlet-Latour, president of the International Olympic Committee and Dr. Theodor Lewald, chairman of the German Olympic organizing committee. His colleague.

Brig. Gen. Charles H. Sherrill has decried efforts to halt American participation. The general had insisted Germany was living up to her pledges of fair play and he held out the threat of anti-Semitic trouble should the anti-Olympic movement be continued.

Count Baillet-Latour also had strongly recommended participation, saying he had received renewed assurances that the terms of the Olympic charter had been kept by the German Olympic committee. Said Jahncke to Dr. Lewald: "It wUl be a calamity, in my opinion, if America does participate, for it now appears as if the Olympic Idea can be saved only by the refusal of the Americans and of the other peoples to have anything to do with the games If they are held In Germany. "Your continued insistence that the German pledges have been kept in the face of overwhelming and conclusive evidence to the contrary, has caused many persons to doubt your own good faith In the matter. I for one believe that you yourself really desired to keep these pledges, although of course, can understand the circumstances that have rendered you powerless to do so.

LONG-DISTANCE CANOEIST AT NEW ORLEANS ST. LOUIS. Nov. 28 Hardy Nurm-sen, 28. halted In his 2900-mUe canoe voyage from New York to New Orleans to await the scheduled arrival of aonther long-distance canoeist.

He expected the arrival of GwUyn WUllams, 28, of Everett, making a 4747-mUe trip from the headwaters of the Missouri river to the mouth of the Mississippi. Williams was last heard from at JJetierson City, Mo. Nurmsen, a painter and decorator, left New York July 4. He said he was shipwrecked twice In Lake Erie and once In Lake Michigan, being forced each time to swim to shore. Give Cotton Bale To Aid Roosevelt Celebration Fund ATLANTA, Nov.

28. VP) Three Fayette county farmers drove a yoke of oxen to town behind an escort of police, bearing a bale of cotton to contribute to the cost of the Fridays Roosevelt homecoming celebration. The farmers have become self supporting on a farm rehabiliatlon project. The steers, captured from stray drouth herds, were broken and used to make crops In Fayette county. LONGSHOREMEN HEARING IS NOW SET FOR DEC.

4 Delay Due To Inability Of Attorney For Unions To Be Present In Court At N. 0. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28 (AV-Hearing on a petition for injunction of two Independent longshoremens locals against the International Longshoremens Association has been continued here before Judge Wayne G. Borah In Federal District Court to Wednesday, Dec.

4. Inability of Richard Dowling, attorney for the petitioning unions, to attend the hearing led Judge Borah to grant another continuance. The case was con-tlned from last Wednesday to allow attorneys additional time to prepare their cases. The International Longshoremens Association is striking here and at other ports along the Gulf Coast for recognition by steamship companies. Thir-ten persons have been killed and scores wounded as a result of strike violences.

Petition of the International Longshoremen's Association to dissolve an existing Injunction prohibiting persons from Interfering with shipping actlvties here was also continued until next Wednesday. Judge Borah expressing the the cases should be heard together. MEET DEClO IN MOVE TO MAKE AVIATION SAFER House Post Office Committee To Draft Legislation At Gathering Next Month WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 VP) Chairman Mead (D-N. has disclosed that the House Post Office committee will meet December 10 to draft legislation to Improve the safety of commercial flying.

The committee will stuya suggestions asked in a questionnaire sent to federal agencies. Pilots Associations, private operators and other authorities. Mead said the objectives of the new safety bill will include 1. Limiting working hours of pilots to prevent fatigue. 2.

Regulations requiring such safety appliances as life belts, flare lights, two-way radio, multi-motors and radio beam facilities. LIKES CAREER OF 0. S. DIPLOMAT, STATESWOMAN United States Minister To Denmark Makes Brief Stop At Orleans On Air Trip NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28.

VP) Stopping here a few minutes Wednesday between airplane schedules, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, United States minister to said that she loved the life of an American diplomat In Europe. 1 love trying to Interpret the United States to Denmark and Denmark to the United States, she said. The minister arrived here from Jack-son, and left on the afternoon transfer trip to Washington, via Atlanta. She is on her vacation trip.

1 Directors Of Exchange Back Cotton Loan And Subsidy Plan Report Increased Business For Trade And Creation Of Perceptibly Better Feeling NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 28. VP) The annual report of the board of directors of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange endorsed the present loan and subsidy plan for cotton which, it said, had brought "Increased business for the trade and created a perceptibly better feeling. The report was signed by C. P.

Ellis, president, and Henry Plauche, secretary of the exchange, after reviewing the sharp decline In consumption and exports of American cotton which occurred prior to the new plan It said: Confronted with this situation, and with the practical certainty that Its immense holdings would be greatly augmented If the same policies were pursued again this season, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration recognized the necessity for a change. "Hence, Instead of a 12-cent loan, a plan was evolved to cover the 1935-36 i.