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LEATHER WORK
of All Kinds
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MACHINE CO.
*, I 60*I>. iUp.
Ill N. Sherman St.
MEXlA TEXAS FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
MESQUITE BANK
+ 4 4* 4* +
+ 4. 4. 4.
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Nine Die From Eating "Mushroom" Dinner on West Coast
15 MORE SURE
TO DIE AFTER
EATING FUNG!
Community Dinner of
Lettuce Pickers
Is Fatal
MEX1A MEN BEGIN WORK CLEARING
TITLES OF LAND FOR FARM COLONY
ALL POISONED
Toadstool Feast
Executioner of
28 Workers
"I Didnl Know
That..."
Is
"The heck you didn't, where
have you been ... don't you
read the papers?" (
He had to confess he didn't
read them often. Had missed the
whole plow-up program and had
to depend upon what his neigh-
bors told him about it when lu
could have kept himself posted
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal. (U.PJ- j °,n evei'yt,llnK that ,s taking
A community dinner of 22 Filipino \ f,late b* the
lettuce Pickers, to which their two I for a Vpar s ""bsmption. There
American'employers were invited, \ ara iots of oth« thin*s 1,aPI)(!l"
today resulted in the agonizing | that you CAN'T AFFORD
death of nine workers. ' T0 MISS- But- if -vou "*>'
I your subscription, we are going
Fifteen others including 2 white j to cut you off.
employers, who partook of what j *
they thought was a delectable dish
of mushrooms were expected to j
die. No hope for recovery of any of
the men was held by Dr. F. Hilton j
Smith, county physician.
COLONY CENTER ^ ™ vTfE SHOOT WAS TO
WILL BE NEAR A^here THUOST USE POWER TO
STRIKES BREAK OUT ALL OVER NATION
AS WORKERS SEEK HIGHER WAGES FOR
LABOR IN FOUR DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES
1
CROSS ROADS
Surveys Start for
Building on New
Project Here
/
HIRING STAFF
Local Pastor Takes
for His Subject
"Emergencies"
i "Emergencies' 'was the keynote
j of the address of Rev. W. W. Ward,
I pastor of the First Methodist
j Church of Mexia, as he talked at
! the noon luncheon to the Rotary
club here Thursday.
! Rev. Ward's subject was indeed
| appropriate, for it was late Thurs-
Tho- F ilipinos were employed on
the ranch of Walter Huber, tinea
miles south of Aroyo Grande.
Heavy rains lust week brought up
large beds of fungi in the hills sur-
rounding the ranch. The men spent
Tuesday gathering what they be-
lieved were mushrooms and invited
Huber Hn dhis brother, Jack, to a
dinner in the camp dining hall.
All ate heartily. Late Tuesday
night they became ill and were
brought to the county hospital
here.
Yesterday Victor Tabullian,
23, (lied in agony. His compatriots
were too ill to discuss the dinner
and their Plight.
Since late yesterday, the man
have been dying at the rate of one
every two hours, Dr. Smith said.
An autopsy over the first victim
revealed acute yellow atophy of the
liver as the direct cause of death.
This is the primary symptoms of
toadstool poisoning, the county
physician said.
A mass funeral for the Filipinos
will be held here when and if tile
remaining men die, it was announc-
ed.
GOVERNOR SIGNS
BILL RELIEVING
PROPERTY OWNER
In Effect at Once;
Debtor Can Halt
Forced Sale
URGE PAYMENT
Air Line Was Led
to Believe He
Could Help
MADE PROMISE
Said He Would Get
Father to Write
Air Head
Expect $300,000 To
Be Spent Here
on Colony j day morning before he knew ' hut
I he was to jqieak. The Rotary Pi o-
The community center and main 1 gram was originally scheduled for WASHINGTON (U.R) Harris
group of buildings on the Mexia Thursday night and members of M Hanshue, president of Western
Farm Colony will be located near Hear .u Rotary club were to be ill Ajl. ).;XI,|.f,SSi told the Senate uir-
the intersection of the Nigger charge, but due to the inclement [ mai, commutee today that Erne.it
Creek road and the State Highway weather this program was post- j ^ gmoot) son o{ the former Utah
No. 7, about half wav between p,mt.d until next Thursday night. | sejiator> "soi,|" official of the air-
Mexia and Tehuacana, it was an- Rev. Ward in part stated: "A | ,jne «on the W(fU that he coum ex.
nounced Thursday. Mrs. Helen K. man's reputation is really of the j a (jt(.jsj0I1 Comptroller
t8l't General McCarl in 1930 relating to
Helen K. man's
Thompson, general manager of the emergency nature. Kuinur-
Rail, Motor, Laundry
and Cleaners Are
Affected
(By United Press)
Coincident with attempts by the
National Recovery Administration
to diagnose ills' of workers and em-
ployers, in open hearings at Wash-
ington, industrial dissatisfaction
was manifest today in many sec-
tions of the South. East, and Mid-
dle West.
Strike threats and active walk-
outs affected the motor industry,
laundry workers atjd cleaning and
dyeing plant employes.
In Toledo, O., last night 4,000
striking employes of automobile j
parts factories voted to return to
work today under a temporary a-
greement carrying graduated wage
increases ranging from five to 12
per cent. The strike began last
Thursday.
Cleaners Quit.
Three thousand employes of the |
Philadelphia cleaning and dyeing j
DERN DENOUNCES
PLANS TO CREATE
AVIATION CORPS
Sec'y. War Says New-
Plan to Disrupt
Air Force
WASHINGTON (U.R) Ameri
, Make Clean Getaway
•a's Proud aviation development 1 aS Dallas Cops
was thrown into new controversy J Are Called
DALLAS (U.R)
was
today by Secretary of War Geo. j
H. Dern roundly denouncing pro- J
postals to create
aerial corps.
Dem's statement was made as
aviation and the army already
were subject to four disputes and
inquiries. These were;
Pending congressional investiga-
tion of army procurement methods,
with especial reference to evasion j i"10 l)a"k,
of the law in bids for aircraft man- j
ufacture.
Four ban iit
an independent boasted they were members >.<
Clyde Barrow's gang, held up th-
F'irst National Bank at Mefquita
12 miles south of here, and escap,"
with bet ween $1,500 and $2,000 •
day.
The leader of the bandits wait.
accompanied by .
. j man armed with a machine ASU";
The other two bandits remain"
AUSTIN, (UP)—A montoruim
on forced sales of real estate
property in Texas became effec-
tive today when Governor Fergu-
son signed Senate Bill Three, en-
acted in a final session of the
legislature early yesterday morn-
ing.
Beginning today, a debtor faced
with a forced sale of his property
may go into district court and up-
on proper showing before the
judge secure temporary stays of
sale.
No stay may legally extend
beyond Feb. 1, 193,5, the date of
self limitation of the act. Tax
delinquency of more than two
years shall constitute a barrier
to such relief, but it may be he-
moved if the judge finds the deb-
tor to have a substantial equity
in the property involvinged
The rifcw moratorium differs
from that enacted last winter
by requiring the debtor to pay
■ regular rents and revenues to the
creditor during the stay of sale.
In the case of urban property, the
I court shjtll ascertain the rental
i value which must in uo case be
j less than enough to pay the in-
| surance.
| March t>, is the next date of
j scheduleed foreclosure sales in
j Texas. A temporary, 30-day mora-
torium had been hastily enacted
early last February to allow leg-
islative consideration of the act
that became effective today,
WARM WEATHER
FOR MOST TEXAS
A cold drenching rain fell In
various sections of Texas today
I as temperatures continued to me.
\ The rain followed a cold wave,
; the most severe of the season,
that sent temperatures in the Pan
We are sorry I t the young with deli- handle as low as (I degrees above
rate stomachs- weak or frail from any zct.0i
cause. Girlr and oys missing the best ...
years of life. Side-step unhappiness. 1 foiecast *\as ior rain in
Here is a tonic jurt loaded with vita- 1 east and west Texas tonight and
mins B and G—UCATONE. • j'rj(|ay
JanS&rt&SS; T
They will digest anyUing—won't even I I exas were reported somewhat
know they have stomachs. Stop in j benefited by the cold spell, whirl.
the many fine home rem<*ies made by seeds. 'I he penetrating and soak-
the NYAL Company of Vtroit and, ing rain B(1(lc{| furth t b
sold ONLYatyour N YAL I^ruc Store. 1 ^
, Hear UCATONE brcWast
'over Station WFAA Thurs-
days at 11:15 a. m. and 'I.ties
Texas Rural Communities, Inc, and
Neal Ford, architect, inspected tlv
property late Wednesday, determ-
ined to permit most of the tenants
on the 10 tracts to continue their
crop making this year, and planned
to start surveys immediately.
A school, community house, can-
ning plant, chick hatchery, dairy
barn, trading post, factory build-
ing and other community buildings
will be erected around a commun-
ity center, with the homes of tlv
100 colonists grouped about the '5-
acre plots. Pastures will be laid
out along the lands best suited, and
other.ground will be plotted for ir-
rigation farms.
Own Water System
The colony will develop its own
water system both for irrigation
and domestic supply, but plans are
being made to use gas and electric
supply from companies serving
this area.
but if a man's reputation is good 1 a contl.„vevRy Western Air's
they are quickly stopped. Living | ti.alw.Continental mail contract,
clean is another form of emergen-1 «Smoot was not employed for
purpose," Hanshue nx-
j neal the hank entrance.
Senate airmail investigation <>!' '
plants walked out ycstui (iuj wh^Mi j an* nmil living. iuiwei] J i iobic, r-dsuiftts
a wage cut was ordered by eniploj- 1 Criticism of army aviation abil- ' cashier and the only person in th
ers. j jty in connection with the handling i ^ank. was forced to lie on the flooi .
Strikers at the Seaman Automo- I ()r t|H, ajrmau service. ! The bandits seized all the money '1
cy.
"One can never tell when the ut-
most vitality will be called on due
to sickness or an accident. If a per-
son lives clean this vitality will lie
ready to combat ailments."
Rev. Ward also stated that a fire
department costs a great dw*al of
money but in an emergency the
service rendered will more than
pay for the monetary outlay.
District of Columbia grand jury
bile Body Plant at Milwaukee ston-
ed automobiles parked near the . , .
' , investigation ot army contractors
and a worker seen near the ! . . ...
1'actor.v
| any other
plained.
Smoot is the son of former Sena-
tor Reed Smoot, Repn., Utah, dean
j of the Senate before his defeat in
j 1932. Young Smoot testified yes-
terday that he handled public re-
lations for the airline in Wash-
ington.
Hanshue said Smoot conferrred
j with him and other officials of the
) company in New York, "and prom-
ised to get his father to write a
letter to the comptroller general."
j At that time, McCarl was hold-
I ing up Payments on the contract 1
j awarded jointly to Transcontinent-
al Air Transport and Western Air
hun-
plant was abducted. Tweivc
dred men walked out.
Two Middleton, Conn., silk com-
panies were closed yesterday when
300 weavers deserted their looms,
dema!Hling higher wages.
A strike of workers at the Keno-
sha, Wis., plant of the Nash Mo-
tors company, scheduled for yester-
day, was postponed until today.
The long drawn out New York
hotel strike affecting several
thousand workers, was officially
ended yesterday when pickets wer?
withdrawn from "beats" in front
of the city's hotels and restaurants.
Avert Strike
At Cleveland a last minute coin-
Mrs. Thompson expects work
begin at once 011 surveys and map George Bell urged all members
making, with material to be mov- j to be at the dress rehearsal of the
ing within three weeks. The admin- ! Rotary minstrel tonight as it is to
istrative staffs will be set Up and j be the final rehearsal before the
construction foremen employed | show tomorrow night.
Workers who will build the homes ) —; *
and other buildings will be re- GAS KILLS TWO
IN PHILADELPHIA
Rev. Ward was. introduced by W.
K. Boyd, program chairman. Mr.
Boyd stated that tile club was to
have an address from Rev Ward at
a later date, but due to the last
minute changing of plans by the
Hearne club, he called on Rev. 1 ,, . .. , ,, . . , , , , 1 , , ,, , , .,
at , ,, ., Ion the ground that their bid nail promise averted a threatened walk-
Ward, who IBoved that it really , . , , ... , ' .
, . been the higher of two submitted. I nut of 2.500 employes of the \\ lute
pays to be prepared for an emerg- , ,, „ . . ,
Tr.en you 'engaged Mr, Smoot , Motor Company. Officials agreed
e ' ' to assist in getting a favorable Je- to wage increases of HI to 20 ner
cision from General McCarl?" ask-! cent.
ed Chairman Hugo L. Black. 1 \ strike of all trainmen employ-
"I think it was more to assist in | t.d by the Kansas City Southern
expediting the decision," Hanshue j Railway, effective tonight, was
replied. "I don't think anybody called yesterday after a Washinjf-
could do anything with the romp-1 ton conference failed to reach a
j relations with the war department.
' Dern said that the unified air corps
plan under consideration by the
| House committee would be so Jis-
S ruptive of the army's military ef-
j t'ectiveness that he would prefer
| to have no increase in the strength
j of the Army Air Corps than see
1 the plan adopted.
lie said that if Army genera!
staff control were decreased "it
t could only result in exposing the
I givernment to the possibilities oi
j manipulation and control by those
! groups which are now being inves-
1 tigated by congress."
ASKS WORK WEEK
CUT TO 30 HOURS
WASHINGTON
hour week under
(U.R)
A
' the cashier's cage, walked to th' i.
automobile parked in front oi 'i
i building, and sped away after i i
cling the town square,
Tribble's description ot On •
ti.e men who entered the t>a!i
tallied closely with Raymond Han
ilton. companion of Barrow who re-
cently escaped from the Kasth- "
prison farm with the aid of the n '
torious desperado*
It was believed one of the n.
men might have been Barrow h
self.
'fribble said ti.e leader told hii
"We mean business. You're foe
ing with Hamilton and Barro
now."
The bandits warned "fribble 1
remain on the floor for five milts
tes. They circled the sqraw in th-1
automobile and drove back by r
bunk, evidently to see if their tv
PUNY
cruited from the CWA in Lime-
stone, Freestone and Navarro
counties. j —
In reviewing the purpose of the j PHILADELPHIA (U.R) — I wo
colonization Mrs. Tnompson point- j persons were killed and 19 over-
ed out the nationwide program oi | come by illuminating gas in South
the federal government, showing Philadelphia today when a main
that Texas has had the advantage
over other states in setting up its
organization for this work first.
It is to become a part of the na
tional unemployment relief pro-
gram.
Col. Lawrence Westbrook and
David R. Williams, architect, have
been called to Washington to lead
tills kind of program nationally.
The aim is attractive homes at low
cost. Mrs. Thompson pointed out
that prior to 1850 there were no
poor homes built. Pioneers bvuli
their homes according to their
needs and used local materials, j |vrn near Burleson.
Theirs was, therefore, the most at- j —-—-— —
tractive architecture, because it
was simple.
CWA labor and materials will
be used on the colony, and pur-
chases will be 011 army speciji/a-
tions — the lowest bidder a.wa,
getting the work? At least thre'
bids are required before any p'li-
troller general.
"Smoot sold us on the idea he
could expedite the decision."
The former senator's son was
paid $2,500 on Dec. 17, 1930, by
.lames G. Wool ley, former Western
Air vice-president, although he had
submitted a bill for $15,000. '
The day after Wooley made in-
payment, McCarl rendered a de-
cision that the facts before him
by the fumes which swont into i were not sufficient to justify
onies, | ward of the T. A. T.- W. A. E. con-
1—-o ... I tract. He asked for further infoy-
ST \TE BESTS ' illation from the postoffice depart-
CLEBURNE <U.R) — .Ti.e sfa
nal decision.
broke, according to reports to po-
lice.
Nearly 100 persons were made
compromise over a new wage scale.
Requests for National Guard
protection at the Southern Coop-
erative Foundry Company at
I Rome, Ga., caused Governor Ku-
I gene Talmadge to send a personal
j representative to investigate con-
ditions. The guardsmen were :e-
I quested to prevent attempts of
striking employes to block
ments t*rom the factory.
-hip
t ment officials before making a fi-
rested its presentation of circum- I
stantial evidence against H. I..
(ChiliI Cobb, of Hid county, >11 j
trial hero 011 murder charges in j
(lie slaying of his neighbor mid j
cousin, Thomas Gullet., IS, who"!." ;
body was found in a burned ha> ,
Hanshue testified that former
Postmaster General Walter F\
Grown "forced" him to make an a-
greement with American Airways
an aviation corporation subsidiary,
before getting net extension on its j
line from Cheyenne, Wy., to Albu-
querque, N. M.
TEXAS CITIES TO
FIGHT FOR FAIR
Believe Prosperity
Due for Winning;
Texas Site
\ codes to increase employment was
i urged today at the NRA protect
j round-up by John P. F're.v, secre-
J tary of the metal trades depart-
! ment, American Federation of La-
1 bor. Forty pours, now is the aver
S age under codes.
Frey said the 10-hour week es~
j tablished in the first code untoi •
j tunateiy had become the standard,
i with some permitting as high a*
It and -IS hours weekly. He aid
i the provision permitting still long
r hours in peak periods also da.s
i hindered reemployment Require-
I menr that time anil one-halt" be
! paid for all work over code limits
1 would remedy tbis situation, he in
lieved.
manufacturing I mauds had been obeyed.
Then t.h si-
iwtty toward h
las.
Local authoritieSs received a 1
port that the bandits had tran
I'ered to a dark maroon atitomob:.
with 1 khaki top at Mesqui'r mp
\ev Hope cross roads
SAYS RASPUTIN
HYPNOTIZED HIf«
Admits Fear of Ma
Monk of Moscow
at Trial
days and Wednesdaya \tie-
tween 10:30 and 11:30 a. V
Kendrick & Horn
Drug Co.
chase is made. The company pa,. • j j
the landowners 5 per cent interest
Rain will be heaviest tonight in ! on the purchase Price of the land-.
Central Texas, where low pros- J beginning the amortization of the j
sure area prevailed with an east' | liens the second year. Only the in
ward movement. terest will be paid t;ue first year, 1
PBHK!
b
LL
catone
I
ASK death in
doctor's trial
\oREl
but after that one' 15th of the it-
(Continued on Page
president will
ask guarantee
Rut Dean, charged with the poi-
son 1 ghball murder of her asso-
ciate,>f)t . Pre",ton Kennedy, we-
WASHINGTON (U.PJ - Presi-
dent Roosevelt plans to send a
special message to Congress today
usked yy the State of Mississippi! nsking the guarantee of the princl-
as instnetions to the jury and ual of $2,000,000,000* tff home loan
final arfinmcnts in the bizarre bank bonds, it was revealed at the
rase began, here today j White House today.
Get a
New
Pontlac
They're here!
Oliver
Motor
Co., Inc.
• 1ND VICTIM IN
WACO HOTEL ROOM
DALLAS (U.R) — Principal cities
of the Texas today were Planning
participation in a spirited contest
for selection of a site for the 193(5
Texas Centennial celebration.
It was recalled that Chicago
benefitted front the Century of
Progress Exposition to the. sum of
WACO. tU.R) Klwood Calhoun, approximately $27,000,000, Many
.•'an Antonio taxi driver, was lo- ! believed that the Texas Centennial,
rated at a hotel here today by | though not as great in scope as th-
city detectives. ! exposition at Chicago, would bring
Calhoun said two men kidnap-1 proportionate aid to the Texas host
ed him when he answered a call city..
t, Randolph Field and forced him According to the legislative
to drive to this city, ( measure providing $100,000 for the
The driver said that upon at- Centennial, the site will be award-
TITLE FIGHT TO
BE HELD TONIGHT
MIAMI (U.R/ — Despit ..vercast
skies and high winds, ............ . ,
Square Garden will go through !
with the Cai nera-Loughran fight
tonight.
ed the largest
ment.
financial induce-
SAYS POLICY ON
MONEY IS TRIAL
iving here they escorted him to;
1 the hotel and told him to remain ;
in his room.
FIND KIDNAP CAR
ON WACO STREETS
I WASHINGTON (U.R) Secr->-
WACO (U.R) -- A taxicab in tary of Treasury Henry Moreen- j
which El wood Calhoun of Sa" An- thau, Jr., told a House committer
tonio was kidnaped was recovered 1 that the administration's present |
here today. Constable Harvey
Butts saw two men leave the cat
and run. Officers found no trace
of Calhouo
monetary poliry is distinctively an
experiment and that it will bo at
least nine months before a more
jptu-awMwiiL uolicy can bo cnvolvea.
See The New
1934
ON DISPLAY
At the
WALLACE WELCH
Inc.
UN DON W.R I'he Mesmevii
power:- of Kasp1.1t.1n, the Mad Mote
uitce put him '••• his pe" ■ by hyp
ltotisn
Voiissoupotf s testimony was d'
-igned to confirm historiea'. ass."
,, tion.- that the unholy. sex-mso
Miidi-on i priest had xerted a siniste. po.roi
iver the court of Ossar Nicholas II
■ and the Oarini uhder his ment i
| control.
Tiie Prince, laboring under grea
i strain, was being cross-examined
i in his wife's libel suit against the
Mett o-tloldwyn-Mayer Film Co.
j charging that she was libelled in
1 a film about Rasputin.
' Cndei questioning by Sir Wil-
I Item Jowitt. counsel for the flinty,
company, the prince said:
"Rasputin promised to tcy to
cute me of a complaint. 1 was told
to lie on « couch in his study.
"Rasputin began to stroke my
chest, neck and head, and to make
I passes over my face," the prince
: said.
"Did you find a very powerful
■ mesmeric influetic* over you?"
I Jowitt interposed.
I "Yes."
"And you were unable to call
! out. or move ?"
"Practically."
"After that hypnotic seance f'Vt-
repeatedly went to litnj and the*'
j treatment continued ?" j|
, "Yes."
"And it. is a fact, sn't it. 0111;
the treatment did you some (,««..1
1 "No, it viid not," ;i
I
COPS BELIEVE
CLYDE BARROW
HELD UP BANK
iFojur Gangsters Take
$2,000 at Bank
in Texas
MACHINE GIJN
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