Corpus Christi Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 11

THE uarw CHRIKTI TIMEX WEDNESDAY AUGUST Bowling Scores Texas Ileus Briefs By UNITED PKESS More than 90 Royal I Air Force fledgling pilots had seen their tint Texas League I baseball game today The game was all right they Hid but the thing that interested them most the umpire Britishers seeing last Fort Worth-Dalles game as guests of the Dallas club spent more time echoing Umpire Mike throaty ike4 than watching the play Funeral services will I be held today for Frank Browder columnist for the former Dallas Semi-Weekly Farm News who died of a heart attack Monday I He was 73 Browder kas known to thousands of North Texas readers under his by-line "Loafer PREDICTS LIVING COST Spectators at the hearing of the House Banking Committee pay close attention to Leon Henderson head of the Office of Price Adminis-' tration he declares that the nation faced the "strongest increase in the cost of living" price-control bill became law illustrated his testimony with charts 1 pAnp-a AFLIIas'Dfedioti' Attention Colled To Labor Dispute NEW YORK Aug 1 'Sroadway had a 30-mluute "blackout" of sorts last night but it had nothing to do with the war end the result put only a slight dent in the electrical brilliance of the Times Square area The huge spectacular signs atop and on the sides of buildings and somo hotel and theatre marquee ights were turned off from to 9:30 by members of the In- teraational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3 AFL to Mil attention to their dispute with tha Consolidated Edison Co All restaurant! and shops in the block ra were brightly -lighted and the street lamps auto were kept on Theatre and hotel marquees and upright signs whicn wen on the same line with lobby lights or were cm comers whicn would be dark if they were turned off also remained on The union is seeking to force the Edison Co to hire union electricians for construction work on a new plant Americans Must Be Ready To Sacrifice Marine Colonel Soys HONOLULU Aug 6 U9 The American people must be prepared to make tremendous sacrifices and "give at least 5U cents of every dollar of their income -to keep the United States free" CoL Melvin Maas of the Marine Corps said yesterday Maas a congressman from Minnesota when he was called to active duty recently told the Rotary Club that federal tastes soon would take 50 per cent of the income and "I be surprised if they finally took 75 per be denounced businessmen Who "say they are all for the defense program and high taxes but yell that their industry should not be "If we 'permit and Britain to be driven out of the Pacific now through" Maas continued "The will be-' come a third rate agricultural tuition with a surplus of peasants" FILLER 'PERFECT Pitcher Bob Feller was found to be a perfect physical specimen by doctors who examined him for his Cleveland Selective Service Board Here Dr Joseph Placak Jr examines the 22-year-old hurler's teeth Feller is not expected to be inducted into the Army for several months Senate Committee BONHAM Fannin I eighth traffic fatality of the year today was Tom Allen 56 crushed to death yesterday beneath the wheels of a milk truck Billy Collins driver of the truck said he did not know Allen was I National Slreaf near the machine until he began nonai backing and the truck hit him I Shoot If Opened DALLAS Sebring cab I driver nursed a bullet wound in his leg today He got it when a negro struck his wife over the head with a pistol during a family argument The gun discharged the bullet hitting Sebring as he Ht In his cab as and most pronounced even if the administration's immediately He INDIANAPOLIS Aug A couple of 19-year-old the spotlight today as of the nation's high-ranking shooters opened fire on championships In annual clay target BOWLINS PARLOR AMERICAN MIXED LEAOUE Waif Brand ChiU Patunoa 14S lit 171 1M Its- t7 ltt ltt 17ft-421 11 17S 111 IIS 111 407 Ml 777 Mt-33U is st ltt ltt ltt- lit US Its I7t ns i7 its- tsi Its 111 Ml 717 Mtm-Stw btiRMr McArdle Rnn Mayer Total tat Natal Weber MeCaleb Briley tech Uonisaa Totala Rial (Barden's) Weele Marshall Joe Mainer Bill Cocke Joe Auntln Vic McCammoa Totala Kri Billlnaa Dave Unriaay Era Prica rasamora Bill Weiaelnyer Totala 131 its ltt ltt 131 103 ltt 173 117 117 ltt- 417 ttt Ml 321 Ml 7ft 131 17 17S 137 137 111 lit 1M til 111 13- 131 ltt ITS 11S- 10 41 737 731 2114 American Am Match Jln McArtl in Joa Mueller lu Manta Praapari ltt ITS Hex Gerber l7 1S4 Paid McArdla 1 so Ui US- 307 47 32 lt- ltt 13 Total ms Bowling Parlor 1 S37 Bartlett Bnrnltzka Keho Kirk Wilson Totala Dal Manta Fda Uria Prica Jim Parr Wilbur John Gretehen SI Ferguson Totals Mr Tuckara 1 White Avg) Furman Rees Henry -Rankin Totals 304 173 177 107 10S 124 147 113 114 14 138 333 3M 413 451 77 Hi 153 171 143 134 17 134 13 131 ltt 131 431 433 357 133- ltt 401 Til 711 70S 143 ltt 112 123 111 ltt IIS SIS 11 1M 114 1 SI2 II 73 151 1471 Evert Committed Suicide Inquest Verdict Reveols Doral Evert 22 committed suicide by drowning Justice Carl Crow nid this morning in a verdict on the inquest of the youth whose body was found floating In Corpus Christ! bay near the south end of the breakwater early Monday morning Maxwell Dunne Funeral Home sent the body to Lovell Wyo for burial today Funeral services will probably be held in Lovell Friday afternoon A brother Arthur Evert of Corpus Christ! will accompany the body A local man arrested in connection with the death 'has been released police reported last night DOUBLE-HEADER Boseboll Sunday FRENCHY'S BLACKCATS VS SOUTHERN SELECT BEERMEN International Baseball Park Ruth Street 2:30 Sundoy Phone 8321 for Reservations Free Parking FORT A Lew of Decatur and Frank Cnpliver of Wichita Falls will be honored at a dinner here next Tuesday evening Sponsored by the Lions Club the banquet fetes Lee who is the new district governor and Crip-liver as the outgoing governor Polly Sissom 17-year-old Alvarado beauty today reigned over the 49th annual Johnson County Pioneer and Old Petition Requesting Street Improvement Deferred by Council Request Handed To City Engineer For Consideration The City Council last nifht deferred action on a petition signed by many residents of Bluebonnet Street asking that improvement work be carried out on that street and turned the petition over to the city engineer and the street department Another request made by Carpenters Local Union No 13 asked that paving be put down on property deeded to the city for widening of streets in front of the new union building at the Intersection of Morgan and Nineteenth streets The request was referred to the city engineer and M'e legal department Other routine business Included authorization of payment of $70-637-34 for work on the bayfront project to the contractors Under order of the council DePuy bayfront contractor will be paid $7322533 for work on the project while two estimates one for $91531 and another for $249640 for work done by Myers Noyes consulting engineers were also paid-' The report of the city engineer ahewing $312740 collected in fees during July was approved as were reports of the fire chief and fire marshal Bids were opened and tabled until Friday morning for the pur- chase of fire hose allowing the purchasing agent and fire chief to study the bids and prepare tabulations for presentation before the council An ordinance was passed grants ing the Corpus Christ! Hardware Co the right to install a cable over South Broadway Street and Another was passed on the final reading granting a franchise to the Amsco Pipe Line Co for laying pipeline under a section of city streets Want Reading Matter Magazines Taken To Air Station Corpus Christ! is flooding the Naval Air Station with'aecond-' hand literature but the boys like it and ask for more A pickup truck loaded with old magazines went to the station last week and citizens are continuing their response to the appeal for reading matter for- (ervice men Mrs Vernon Burly of the First Christian Church chairman of the collection nid today Persons with magazines for NAS may leave them at the south door by the mailbox of the First Christian Church 400 South she Mid VThe First and South Bluff Methodist Churches the Navy Mothers Club and the Boy Scouts have been co-operating in gathering magazines I'Becauu of the great number of magazines given we have decided we do not wany any magazines older than three months except Reader's Digest National Geographic Esquire and Mrs Burly said Final Warrants for School Funds Mailed AUSTIN Aug 6 Liquidation of the $2250 per capita scholastic apportionment for the year 1940-41 has been completed State Superintendent A Wood skid today Final warrants paying $2 on the apportionment and aggregating $3075368 were mailed yesterday The liquidation was completed Oa much earlier dale than last Income Tax Rates Chairman George Calls Group for Detailed Analysis WASHINGTON Aug 6 Still higher income tax rates and lower personal exemptions were under discussion today even before members of the Senate Finance Committee sat down with Treasury experts for a thorough examination of the $3206200000 tax bill approved by the House Chairman George (D-Ga) called the committee together for detailed analysis of the measure Iter telling reporters that efforts probably would be made to make up the Iom in prospective revenues occasioned by the House action in eliminating a provision making joint income returns mandatory for married couples The Treasury calculated that this precision would have yielded $323000000 and George Mid it ought to be made up somehow possibly through a readjustment of income tax rates or a broadening of the base by lowering present personal exemptions which They Had the Goods on Him DETROIT Aug 8 01 J5 Walter Wendt had his picture taken May 23 while slumped over the steering wheel of his automobile Today he wm sentenced to serve 15 days in the house of correction on a drunken-driving charge The photographers he learned were accident prevention bureau officers Youth Held in Jail For Threats Mode 4 Against Actress LOS ANGELES Aug 6 Sidney Buchanan 22 brought here to answer charges of sending threatening letters 1 to Actress Hedy Lamarr was held in jail yesterday in lieu of $5000 baiL Unless he can secure bail Bu chanan must remain In jail until the federal grand Jury reconvenes on August 27 He Mid his parents 1 who live in Baltimore "might" furnish his bond if he asked them "But rather stay in Jail" he Mid did it We all do foolish thinp at times If they will give me another chance it happen again" v- Federal authorities said Bu chanan-wrote Miss Lamarr two1 letters demanding $500 and threatening to mar her features if she refused i CONTRACT AWARDED WASHINGTON Aug- 6 The War Department announced today award of a $313655 contract to the Mosher Steel Co Dallas Texas for structural steel for air corps hangars at the aviation mechanics school Wichita Falls Texas The delivery date wu not announced Settler Reunion as it swung into while 16-year-old Lutcher its second day Miss Sissom wm Brown of San AntonUyTextt and chosen queen tost night- his straight-shooting dad Lutcher I Sr loomed as FORT It was all love greatest threats and kisses today for a young married qpuple who were ripped I apart yesterday by a quarrel and the local police Angered because his wife had left him the young man threw an automobile Jack through a downtown Jewerty store window and waited for police to I pick him up Today the wife had shown up There was a touching embrace Jewelry store officials agreed not to prosecute if the young man would pay for the I By UNITED PRESS National League Pittsburgh (Sewell 10-10) Chicago (Root 5-6) Brooklyn (Higbe 14-7) at New York (Hubbell 9-5) night game Tension Runior False Termed Invention Of German Press MOSCOW Aug 6 CUJ9 The official Soviet spokesman said yesterday that reporta of tension between Russia and Japan In Soviet provinces were the "crude of Italian and German newspapers The spokesman A Lozovsky vice foreign commissar Mid also that Japanese reports of an alleged military conference between Soviet and Chinese representatives at Chita Siberia are "fantastic newspaper invention lacking even a remote semblance truth" Diplomatic and trade relations between the United States and Russia remain exactly as they were before recent conferences between Josef Stalin and Harry Hopkins American lend-lease administrator the spokesman Mid "The question taken up was quite clearly explained by Hopkins" he asserted "so that no changes whatever in relations took place" Rumor That Russian Crown Jewels Are in San Francisco False SAN FRANCISCO Aug' 6 0LR) Collector of Customs Paul Leake last night denied reports published in Italian newspapers that the Russian crown jewels arc in San Francisco to be used In part payment for aid to the "We haven't seen anything of the Russian crown Leake Mid "As far as I know they are still in Vladivostok" A spokesman for the Soviet con aulate called the Italian reports "silly" Horace Heidt 100 Soldiers Enliven Evening for Girls CHICAGO Aug 6 00-0 iris attending a meeting of Alpha Sigma Alpha a national educa tion sorority were resigned to dull evening last night until: (1) Horace Heidi turned up at their hotel with his band 1 (2) Nearly 100 soldiers arrived from Fort Sheridan A surprise party had been arranged by the sorority's sponsors and Mr Gertrude Taugher an Army hostess I glass" He did and hi Boston (Salvo 2-11) at Phila- WORTH FBI agents I delphia (Johnson 3-6) night the nation today for6ame Max Headley veteran bank who is charged with 1M nd Rwg VESThiS st- L1 (Muncrief 6-5) and Auker 0 games al-year-otd bank employee TWmit ftnraira (U7 1 Clave disappeared July 26 He Cleve" 26 He $2000 for married couples The home House disregarded an eleventh-hour recommendation of President Roosevelt that these be re duced to $750 and $1500 respectively On the' whole there seemed to be little disposition among committee member to attempt to revive the much-disputed joint return provision which the House killed by a vote of 242 to 160 FORT searched Justin teller Th? The charged 6 A) kids held about 350 skeet the national the seventh classic The youngsters are Miss Patricia Laursen of AJcron winner of the all-gauge title the last three years and Dick Shaugh-nessy of Dedham Mass only two-time winner of the crown Shaughnessy annexed his first national title in 1936 at the age of 14 and climbed back to the top a year ago Miss Laursen Is expected to find her toughest foe in another Ohioan Mrs Smythe of Aurora Theuiande of ether raluei in our catalog 1 Visit tha Catalog Order Department! yesterday I Philadelphia (Babich 2-5) at FORT Frank Peter- Washington (Leonard son deputy mayor of Los Angeles I night departed from here today after York (Chandler t-S and leaving a plea that Fort Worth Breuer 6-2) at Boston (Hughson citizens co-operate in rehabiii-1 53) and Harris 4-11) two games tating war refugees FORT Mrs 1 Brady 51 of Dallas wm killed I and her husband a Federal Reserve Bank employee wm seriously injured in an automobile crash here early today Charges I were to be filed against two men I occupants of the other car who fled the scene but were arrested a few minutes later Mrs Brady's death brought to 32 the number of traffic fatalities in Tarrant County this year Chairman Sidney Lister of the Texas Prison Board announced today that Gen eral Prisons Manager Ellington has been authorized to draft plans for a 36-bed hospital at Central Farm near Sugar Land to serve inmates of the southern section of the system The im- provement will cost about $1500 House 44 I editor of the Weekly Southwestern News here and World War veteran waa found dead in his I automobile today Justice of the Peace Tom Maes ruled he died of natural causes Veterans of the Confed crate Army opened a three-day annual reunion at Camp Ben McCulloch near here today The 1 45th annual meeting was opened by AdJ Harwell of Kyle Harwell who had mailed out invitations to 85 members of the ever thinning ranks of in Gray" Mid only eight had slg- nified they would be able to at-I tend Gov: Coke Stevenson was to address the opening session Revenue from the oil production tax levied by Houm Bill 8 of the 47th Texas Legislature totaled $2005644 in June Comptroller George Sheppard announced today The average tax was 486 per barrel which compares with an average tax (based upon price of the oil) of 2947 cents in June 1940 when $t109-981 tax was paid An additional $77399 wu paid in June pipeline tax NIXON BLUE PRINT CO PBONI t-Uil CORPUS CBRISTL TEXAS SOFT BALL TONIGHT SPORTSMAN'S PARK 3100 Antalopa 8 DOUBLE-HEADER Brown Ixproa va Naval Air Station Franca va Jawalar in your container (Fad tax included) "EXTRA-LOW" OIL PRICESI WAR! PHONE 1851 Body of Second Victim of Boat Accident Recovered BURNET Texas Aug 6 The body of Vaughn of Dallas second victim of a boat accident on Buchanan Lake tost Friday was recovered today about a quarter of a mile from the scene of the drownings Mrs Bailey of Waco also drowned Her body was found Monday Two other occupants of the boat clung to a life preserver and were rescued three hours later v1' -'v The new American Naval attache Jn China Maj James McHugh USMC is the author of a textbook on the Chinese dialect MM II OMNI tlHNOt SHM CO Dial 4306 i Trucks that fit the job perform better last longer save tine and money 35c a quart will NOT buy better oil I Every drop of Wards "Supreme Quality is refined from Bradford Allegheny crude the finest Pennsylvania crude that money can buy That seal at the left la your guarantee of purity! Try "Supreme Quality" tough long-wearing and priced to eave you plenty I Come in today and stock up for the rest of the summer Motor oil pricer may go higher I S-quert refinery-seeled can -BOp S-quart retlnensealed eon (Federal tax already included In all prices) Talk it over with your Dodge dealer today! TILL Micro WITH THE L0WIST OibMMi KckUptl87 Pud 7117 Stake 7417 The kind tixe and weifht of the all these facton are Important in choosing the one right truck for top performance maximum economy Thafa why a Dodge Job-Rated truck a truck that Jlfe the Job uves go much real money! ASK ABOUT DRUM-LOT France Ten Ploys Jewelers Tonight The France Pipelined and Lester's Jewelers meet in a Metropolitan League game as part of a softball double-header to be played at Sportsman's Park tonight Their contest will bo the second tilt of the twin bllL The first gutne to start at 8 o'clock will be between the Naval Air Station ten and Brown Express of the Joyces League ODD BELIEF Various Asiatic races In the belief tha the glowing red color of the stone would rause a more deadly wound have used garnets as bullets OBOMM MOnttflM BLACKNALL DEALER FOR 27 YEARS 1MTMTOY 220 Chaparral CHAPARRAL AND kEOFLES.