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F. Union JT'S ALL rigiH to hold the House of Representatives in contempt. That's the privilog; of a citizen. But he must not be in contempt of the House's wishes, as an official body. Jan Anderson, campaign director of the Texas Pensions Union, has learned that, much to his dis- romfort.

Monday he languished in jail at Austin, all for the wont of 5200 with which lo post a bond. He said he had no money of his own and WHS not willing to use the "old folks' money." Meaning. it might be supposed, funds he is believed to have collected for his Union. It all when Anderson refused lo Appear House committee and then before the House itself. The committee's de- sue to Anderson jfrew out of charges on the House floor that old people had written members asking why they had to pay $1 to (heir pensions.

Whether they paid the dollars and whether Anderson received the money has not been established. The House wanted to find out serial Andrr- knew; he retaliated by telling them to "RO jump a stump." They retaliated by puttini: An- derfon where there arr no stumps for him lo jump. Kftckrt PARIS, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 1, 1939 AS BRITISH DRAFT BILLS ARE INTRODUCED- Hitler Braas Of Arn (AND THE DINNER HORN) ESTABLISHED 1M8 Senators Want Britain To Take Peace Hunt Lead RooseveU Could Do Little By Reply To Hitler, They Say WASHINGTON. I'n'sidnnt KooscvHt could accomplish little liy a reply to Adolf Hitler, f-jf'iialors Oeorjrc X.ve (R-ND) suggest nd Monday Great Brilain lako tip lotions for liuroprnn prat-'p witliiti the framework of Killer's Reichstag speech.

The. offered Ibis proposal in advaiscn of the expiration at. mi'lniirlit of the "cnsh ami carry" neutrality provisions, which AnipricHii trado with warrini; nations. Poland May Seek Control Of Danzig to the opinion held liy p. and some leg- liflifve Knoscvi'lt jtiny dismiss Hitler's midress in 'fireside chat" to the nation.

The German Chancellor, in pon.ve to the President's appeal (or a Hl-yeai non-aggi'esKion "In tiiis view of the matter, Prc'sidrnt Roosevelt mav have ad- As from here, one of the most vicious rackets in the nation would be a racket which penalized old people for the privilege of rollectinjt thrir pensions. This is not to say thn practice prevalent. but lo say that if il is the House, or some other legally authorized body, ought to investigate and put a stop to it. Pensions wrrr voted by the people of the state. They are paid on fl basis of And any person sufficiently in need to require funds received from the Old ARC Assistance Comrrrission in order to live certainly i.i not in a sufficiently stable financinl condition to be paying $1 in order to receive check.

Anderson, the Texas Pennioni Union, or other person or organisation Ifullly at such practice, he, It or they should be prosecuted. Trom action, that exactly what that legislative branch intetirfj. If no one will find an objection to this aort of inx'estiffation, even thdugh it mijht the iejally corutl- tufcd duty of some other government agency. The people voted pensions and the House, aj one of the elected erf the government, should feel the interest in pensioni ar not abused any other agency, though the House a law making and no', a law enforcing agency- I pledge, said Friday he willing to Rive peace assurances to countries which requested them and which accompanied their requests with, proposals to the Reich. i Sayinj! Hitler's talk "opens the way for further conversations between Great Britain and the German government," George told reporters: "As the representative of her Allies among the European states, Britain might find a way of ap- vanced the interest of peace and may find further communications with Hitln unnecessary, especially in view of the informal method in which Hitler replied to the President's message." Nve it would be logical for Great Britain to seek to start negotiations with Germany, He argued little could be accomplished by further peace from this government, but contended Great Britain might brine about a "real understanding" proach to negotiations looking to- by csllinc a general European ward the settlement of Europen conference to iron out basic eco- differenccs without resort tn ar.

nomic anrl political problems. Poland Warsaw Monday came word Poland may try to head off the Hitler grab in Danzig by obtaining control of the free city as a "means of preventing forceful annexation. At almost the same time. Hitler, in Berlin, wan proclaiming Germany one of the mos! heavily-armed nations of the world. Could there be any connection between the Warsaw ut- and the Hitler threat? And can no! Hitler's proclamation of the strength of his armed forces be construed ns a threat, evrn though by inference, against Poland a warning to' that nation not to defy the Nazi war ma- chins? Poland has been represented as prepared to offer a stern front to the demands.

At the time it is known that Germany covMs greatly a military rosd now set at 15.5 miles wide the Polish Corridor. Quite a sphere of Nazi influence this, it not? Does Hitler propose to build a road 15.5 miles wide? Woijld such a move be feasible. an engineering point The answer in both cases seem to be no, though the engineering phasa might be overcome. It does seem quite unlikely, though, that a road so wide would be built, even though it would be valuable, in extent of war, for mass troop movements and transporting arms. -No, looks like Adolf wants a 15 mile wide sphere of German Influence.

Given that, he and his propaganda agents could look after th-3 rest short time. Mackey Manhunt At Standstill Road Bond Bill Brings Long Debate Refunding House Busy; Due lo Move On AUSTIN. important bill withdrawal of Texas Hangers and i to give counties a fast accumuUt- Cut By Withdrawal Of State Mrn A posse sharply reduced "by highway patrolmen turned Oklahoma Monday in the search for Marion Mackey, fugitive wanted forMhe slaying of four near Emberson last Wednesday. While of Sheriff .1. H.

Kalllrr continued their hunt on the Mwth aide of Red River, other irffiwrx hurried into Oklahoma to rhnV on ft bit of un- rrvealed Information orlfrinitinf there. Capt, John Draper of the high- I way patrol withdrew the bulk of 2.1 mm from the hunt late Saturday and early Sunday after bush-beating activities had produced no sign of Mackey. Officers were preparing detailed descriptions of the fugitive lo go wilh photographs, to police and Lamar Road Project gPEAKING of roads, it scarcely seems out of order to refer to one in Lamar Specifically, the airline route 'of Highway 24, South, as proposed. Julian Montgomery, state highway engineer, has urged the county to all possible speed in obtaining necessary right-ofway, Much has been said about need for such expediency, but perhaps one mor2 urging is not out of order. It definitely would be regrettable happenning if Lamar County should IOM this $500,000 road building project in part of the whert road unpfwemeat to needed.

Here's hoping: the Court cad ttw will MM earn to an sheriff's offices Southwest. over the entire Detroit Man Dies Here Skull Fractured As He Alights From Car Losing his balance he started to alight from a car, James Edmond Barrett, 47-year-old tchool janitor Detroit, Texas, suffered fracture of the skull about fi o'clock Sunday evening and died at 11:20 Sunday night at the Sanitarium of Paris. Barrett was returning from a ball game south of Detroit, riding on the side of Hugh Martin Sharp's car, and the Barrett home, a quarter, of a mile from town, started lo get off. Barrett fell, striking his head on the pavement, and suffered basal fracture of the skull, as well as shock. He brought- to the hospital after emergency treatment at Detroit.

He was unmarried and lived with his stepmother, Mrs. L. D. Barrett, hix father having died about two yean ago. He had liv- DETROIT, Page 2 Col.

ff ing surplus in the road bond indebtedness fund provoked long debate in the House Monday. Mfwl members believed the proposal would be panned leait to third readinx before the end nf thr day although they were not certain of final form. Meanwhile Senate advocates of the so-called "fair trade bill" affecting prices to be charged by merchants succeeded in setting it for floor consideration Thursday. The vote was 16 to 6. Indications the long session would extend until around May 20 were strengthened when Rep.

E. H. Thornton of Galveston disclosed the departmental appropriation bill would not be ready for House floor consideration before AUSTIN, Page 8 Col. 1 Car, Suicide Note Found Boss PeitilergiiM Aide" 1 Auto Found On River Bridge KANSAS CITY, OP) A suicide note was found Monday in the automobile ot Edward L. Schneider, secretary-Ueasurer of seven corporations headed by Boss T.

J. Pendergasl. The car wag parked on Fairfax bridge over the Missouri River near here. Sheriff Frank Zfmmer of Wyandott County found Um oar and, river near the bridge. Schneider testified four days last week before a Federal grand jury which is investigating business affairs of the political boss.

An income lex evasion indictment, lo which Pcndcrgast pleaded innocent Monday in Federal Court in Kansas City. charges some of the money, received by the boss from hti business interests was paid through Schneider in an effort to evade income tax payment. This Would Forestall Any German Action For Annexation OFFICIAL ORGAN CRACKS AT NAZIS Says Berlin Cannot Be Trusted In Inter- nationa! Agreements WARSAW. Poland might seek control of Danzig free city to forestall any German action toward forceful annexation was raised Monday by the official Gazetta Polska. The newspaper, pointing to what it termed German violation of international agreements, said "the policy of Berlin creates a situation which will cause the Polish government to further its demands concerning establishment ot new guarantees for Polish- rights and Polish property in Danz.ig." Although Danzig, detached from terpreted as meaning Poland might nsk the League of the highest authority in Danr.ig—to transfer certain of its rights to Poland.

The League could invest Poland with police power in the free city which already lies within the Polish customs administration. Although Danzig, dctachtd from Germany by the treaty ot Versailles, is predominantly inhabited by Germans the port handles a ffreat deal of Poland's foreign I trade and, at the Baltic end of the Polish Corridor, would be invaluable for protection of Polish territory in case of conflict. It was reliable reported Reichs- fuehrcr Hitler had followed up his demands with more details of what he wants, including setting the width of a proposed trans- corridor German highway at no less than 15.5 miles. In his Friday Reichstag speech and in a note to Poland, Hitler denounced the 1934 Polish-German non-aggression treaty 60,000 Japs Flee Homes Earthquake Puts Monica Into Flight AKITA, Japan. Sixty- thousand terror-stricken residents of this northern Japanese coastal city fled to ths open spaces Mon- dny during a series of earth shocks described as most severe in 15 years.

The home minittrr'f official report listed rive persons dead and Mwec mtaanr. more than 4N demolished and bout 2M badly danur- ed. of nearby Oka peninsula and of the coastline of Akita prefecture were understood to hare rank beneath Conscription May Include Ireland But Premier There Has Warned Against This Move TALKS WITH SOVIET MAKING PROGRESS QiHiiiherlain Won't Talk On Situation, However LONDON. WV- Bills calling for military conscription of 20-year- old men for six months of training and enabling the government to call up reserve forces when it deems necessary were introduced Monday in the House of Common. 1 The texts were not published ImmediatcJy, but it was reported the conscription measure included Northern Ireland.

Valera of IrHand was understood last week to have warned the British "lovernment not to rxtend conscription to hts northern neighbor. The bills were introduced by Prime Minister Chamberlain and Day Talks Secretary Leslie Hore- Bclisha after a Cabinet meeting to which Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax reported on Poland's reaction to Reichsfuehrcr Hitler'r; Friday speech and was said' to have announced that British negotiations with Soviet Russia were "makinR excellent progress." Arab Reaction Reviewed The Cabinet also anprovcrl terms of the conscription bill anrl was understood to have reviewed Arab reaction to new British pro- nosfls concerning the future of Palestine. After the Cabinet meetinc Chamberlain told the House of Commons: "1 fully recognize the desirability of making a statement on the progress of negotiations with Russia at the earliest possible date, but 1 do not. propose to do so for the time being. Proposals have been received from Russia and the conversations are proceeding with all possible dispatch." Russians After Forced Landing The quake, the epicenter of which was believed to be in the Japan Sea, shook widespread sections of northern Japan.

The town of Funakoshi was burning and known damage in Akita included collapse of homes and shattering of nearly all glass showcases in the stores. Cops Delve Into Graves Exhume Bodies Of As 'Louie The Rahhi' Charged PHILADELPHIA. a prisoner known to police as "Louie the Rabbi' was being arraigned on a charge of murder Monday, detectives supervised the opening of graves of three men whose widows are held as members of an Eastern Seaboard insurance-murder ring. The bodies will he examined for irmcec potiwn was found in four others dujr up in repeat mauthn. The prisoner was Morris Bolber, called a witchcraft practitioner by others under arrest in the plot.

The craves opened were those of Antonio Romualdo, 42, who died November 13, 1937; Raymbn Mandiuk, "43, who died February 22, 1935; and John Wolosyn, 41, buried in January, 1936. Democratic Bob, 100 Years Comes Out For Garner Says He's Lucky 1 Have Lived That Long GREENVILLE. Tex. R. R.

Williams. 100 years old Monday, believes he is lucky to have lived that long, Vice-President Garner would make a great President, and Texas is the "greatest, richest and most (enerous place in the world." Garner, a former colleague of the centenarian in the Texas Legislature, is "about as good as anybody for ui Democratc to fiirnt over the next four years," Williams told 200 relatives and celebrating his birthday at a picnic at Cumby Sunday. Captain Billy Arnold, 102, of Greenville, was the oldest person Uncle Sam Goes In For Chemurgy The former 'Major In the Confederate Army, known as "Democratic after an unsuccessful race for Governor oT Texas against T. M. Campbell in 1908, came to Cumby in 1872 from Arkansas.

His career included three terms in the Texas Legislature. He was born in Henderson County, In Brigadier General Vladimir Kokkinaki, ace Russian pilot, left, and his radio operator, Major Mikhail Gordieko, are shown on Miscou Island, New Brunswick, after they made a forced landing on their projected nonstop flight from Moscow to New York. (Telemat). Mrs. Wallace Beery Wins Divorce In Brief Action Actor and Wife Part After 14 Year Marriage CARSON CITY, Nev, (IPt A brief, uncontested divorce trial Monday ended fourteen and a half years of marriage for Mary Arieta Gilman Beery and Wallace Beery, famed motion picture actor.

Mis. Beery won the decree on the grounds of cruelty'within 20 minutes after her suit was filed in the office or County Clerk Marietta Dies Under Motor Car Accidental Death Verdict Returned In Mishap Near Enloe COOPER. man identified as Walter Funk. 48. who lives two miles north of Enloe, was killed instantly Sunday morning about 11 "o'clock when struck by a Southern Pacific train between Howland and Enloe.

The court approved a property The man's body was Iving on rights agreement, terms o( which the tracks when the engineer dis- was not made public. covered it Custody of the Eeerys' adopted daughter, eishl-year-old Carol Ann, will be divided equally by the couple, Mrs. Beery's attorney Thomas P. Craven, said. Beery, whose full name on the divorce complaint was given as Wallace Fiugerald Beery, and the former "Rita" Gilmari were married in Hollywood, Aug.

4, 1924. She was his second wife, the actor having been divorced from Gloria Swanson, the actress, about two 3 ears after their 1916 marriage. Worse Than A Snowball On A Mountainside ALGIERS. small boys playfully tossed firecrackers under the feet of two Senegalese soldiers Sunday night. The boys ran and the two soldiers pursued them.

Irate townsmen retaliated against the soldiers, wounding them. Two hundred Senegalese went to the aid of their comrades. A general brawl in which windows were smashed, buses were stoned and 100 persons were injured, including 12 seriously enough for hospilali7.ation. covered it too late to stop the train. He was badly crushed and one limb was severed just above the ankle.

Justice of the Peace C. V. Flannery held an inquest and returned verdict of death due to accidental causes. If was nccessaiy to hold the body about three houvs before the man's son arrived to identify him. A man was left at the scene of the accident and the train pro- ceded to Atlas to report to officials.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3 P. M. in Grant. under the direction of Smith Brothers Funeral Home here. He is survived by his wife and four children, two of whom are at home, one son in a CCC camp arid a daughter.

Mrs. Shay Walker of Enloe. and two brother. 1 Including Taxes? CLARKSVILLE. A low in admission prices in this area will be in effect when a terrapin race is staged in the gymnasium at Bogata Tuesday morning.

Ducats to the race will cost exactly one cent. Nazis Open Campaign to Hurt Poland Would Put Squef On Neighbor, Then Make Demands FUEHRER DENIES HE WANTS WAR Says U. S. Should Boycott Emigrants, Not Goods BERLIN. Adolf Monday proclaimed Germany erne of the "most heavily armed nations of the world" and Nazi diplomats pressed efforts to isolate Poland to make her ripe lor yielding to German demands.

The Fuehrer and his lieutenant's seized upon May Day celebrations to unify the Nazi Reich and strengthen the offensive against "international enemies" which Hitler began with his Friday reply to President Hooaevelt's peace proposals. Jn two to 135,000 boys and girls of the Hitler Youth organization and another to "brawn and brain workers" in a Berlin mass hit out at charges Germany desires war. He also took occasion to strike at American action against German goods, saying: The United States hms Ized a boycott axainst GermM goods. It would been better to import German than German Campaigns against the purchase of German goods In the United States are unofficial. The United States Government has imposed a 25 per cent countervailing duty against most German goods to compensate for subsidy of exports by Germany.

Would Isolate Poland German diolomacy Is trying to drive a wedge between Poland and Hungary in the hope of isolating Poland, formerly a partner with Germany in a 10-year non- aggression pact which Hitler denounced Friday, it was said. As the German Fuehrer met Hitler Youth and workers he hammered away with, sentences like these: "Germany is one of the most heavily armed nations of the world today. thanks to our strength and thanks to our friends." "On a day like this I Took with supreme confidence Into the future." "If ever the hour come that the world believes tt can reach out at Germany's freedom, then a million-fold cry ivill rise, so tremendous tbmt thfc world will know unmistakably the time of Germany's weakness is definitely past." "We love I have enough grounds to want pcaca to complete enterprises that need from 10 to 20 years." Heavy April Rainfall Comes to 7.26 Inches April ended here with a total of 7.26 inches of rainfall, by far 1he heaviest to fall in that month for several years, according to T. L. Rogers, government weather observer here.

Rogers said o.Ofi inches fell in April. 1938. and the normal precipitation for that month is 4.73 inches. HEIRESS' MOTHER DtES NEW YORK; at 55 came Sunday to Mrs. Maryon Andrews McCarter, mother of Ann Cooper Hewitt, the "sterilized" Savants Say They'll Turn Farm Products Into To Airplani JACK TBOMOON Can it pull farmer of the help cut Fed- The chemurfisti My emphatically: "We'll turn farm into almost anything from to airpUDw and put into the buslMat ot MIO- sufficiently interested to spend millions to find out just how much chemuw can help.

Right BOW he ia building four retmoa-doOar laboratories apot- tad ta fewai areas et tube economists an eye on the farm and to hunt new and wider "chemia," for chemistry, and "erfon," which means work, In the-IMO's iron horse welded together a continent and. put fommeioe on steel wheels. la fee teeming twenties of a cheap oar off light came true to help along. see other new American THE PARIS NEWS CLASSIFIED AD FAN A ceiling-fan It whmt I.