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J-'HTTJ K'AHNER. GENERAL fNSURANOE
vol. xxx
NO. 5
MKXIA, TEXAS,
FRIDAY
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SHERIFFS SON
FOUND DEAD
NEAR TRACKS
«. ,
Think Deceased
Killed as Try-
ing to Crawl
belhveen Cars
NQ, WITNESSES
Body of Simmons
Is Found Early
Thursday Morn
GROESBECK, Feb. 3, (Spl)
Louie Siiflmons, 24-year old son of |
Sheriff and Mrs. Luther Sim-
mons, was killed Wednesday night
or early Thursday in a train ac-
cident near the Trinity street
rossingv here.
The ' body of Simmons was
>ab^ut 3 a. m. Thursday by
the side of the Southern Pacifie |
railroad tracks about one block
from where the accident was be-
lieved to havs occurred. Allen
McLelland, who found the body,;
-.„iaid that Simmons apparently had
bdfen r\in over by a train.
Officials surmised that Sim-
mons, who works in a Groesbeck
cafe^ had crawled between the
stalled freight cars, and that the
train had suddenly started throw-
ing him under the wheels of the
cars. '
When the body was found Sher-
iff Luther Simmons was summon-
ed but did not know until a short
time after the body was picked
up that it was his son it was re-
'ported.
No' witnesses to the accident
had been located Thursday after-
noon.
Indications pointed to the fact
that the body was dragged by the
train at least a block from the
accident site.
Funeral arrangements had not
been' completed Thursday after-
noon. Surviving the deceased are
lJ " his wife, his mother and father
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Simmons,
and three brothers, Alva Sim-
I mons of Groesbeck, Norma Sim-
\ mons of Groesbeck and Leldon
' Simmons of Groesbeck. Also sur-
j viving are two sisters, Mrs. Lu-
j cille Rogers of California and
Mrs. R. J. Dillon of Ennis.
Simmons Dies in Train Accident Wednesday Night
He Gets Life
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LYNCH BILL
AUTHOR IN
ITS DEFENSE
Constitution
Presents No
Obstacles to
Bill He Says
FIRST DEFENSE
Preliminary Work
Is Continued in
the Committees
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, (U.R)-
Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N.
Y., said in the senate today that
the constitution presents no ob-
stacles to the anti-lynching bill
but in fact makes it the implied
duty of the federal government tc
take reasonable steps to stop
lynching. The co-author of the
bill, which is threatened by fili-
buster offered the first argument
in defense of the legislation since
debate started four weeks ago,
Sn. William E. Borah, R., Ida-
ho, joining with southern senators
had described it as an unconstitu-
tional invasion of state rights.
In committee preliminary work
was continued on the naval ap-
propriation bill and the resolution
to investigate the National Labor
Relations Board.
Admiral Wilflam Lehigh, chief
of naval operation, testified be-
fore the house naval affairs com-
mittee it would be extremely haz-
ardous or an Asiatic power to at-
tempt invasion of the United
States with naval force equal to
ourn. He said this nation s navy
GENEVA, Feb. 3, (UP)—The would be at a disadvantage in de-
League of Nations today author- j fending the Hawaiian Islands un-
ited its members to supply China I less ali of its units wer concen-
with war materials and give the i trated in the Pacific. This fact he
government of Generalissimo Kai I said made enactment of the $800,-
Shek any other assistance within j 000,000 naval appropriation bill
their power.
Through
He is only IS years old, but
Roger Kegg must spend the rest
of his life behind orison bars.
An Akron. O., Judge sentenced
young Kegg to life imprisonment
after the youth had won a
mercy verdict from a jury. Kegg
and 21-yez~'-old George Wells
were convicted of murdering a
restaurant operator during a
holdup last December. Wells
got a death sentence.
League Tells
Nations Send
Chinese Arms
Powers Asked to
Give China All
Help Possible
TO DIE SOON
TONNIE MOORE
| desirable.
Chairman J. Warren Madden
«• „• . , representative,,of NLRB, defended the board
W ellington Koo, Ch.na responded I gt chRrgeg of bjas and
that if the members do not give * t ferrP(j by Sen. Ar
her aid under the resolut.on wh.ch , R Rurke> D > Ney
Court Upholds
Death Decree
Tonnie Moore
Negro Must Pay
with Life for
Bradfute Murder
The case of Tonnie Moore,
Thornton Negro sentenced to death
in the electric chair for the murder
of Frank Bradfute, Thornton store-
keeper has been affirmed by the
court of criminal appeals it was
reported Thursday.
Moore was sentenced to die in
Judge Lex Smith's district court in
Groesbeck several months ago. •
The execution date of Moore wa«
not revealed, but it was assumed
he would go to the chair in the
near future.
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IRISH NAME CAPTAIN
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 2 (U.R)
— James Joseph McGoldrick,
"Shock Troop' 'guard from Phila-
delphia, was elected Notre Dame
football captain today, succeeding
Alec Shellogg who resigned from
the university.
McGoldrick won his monogram
Its a junior last season.
Shellogg was the fourth Irish
grid captain in a row to resign his
post before his last season began.
closed the League's 100 session
she would make new demands for
league assistance.
While accepting the resolution
Koo expressed disappointment at
a meagre hope it holds out for
China and therefore reserved the
right to come back to the league,
saying that China's appeal under
Articles 10, 11 and 17 remains
open.
Peru and Poland abstained from
voting on the objection that the
resolution had been negotiated
secretly by Britain, France and
the Soviet Union.
A committee of 28 on league
reforom adjourned sine die after
adoption of a non-committal re-
port to the September assembly.
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Now Is The Time
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Mules Lambs
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MEXIA TEXAS
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Japs to Give
Serious Study
U. S. Navy Aims
Navy Chief Says
Will Determine
if Plan Menace
TOKYO, Feb. 3 <U.R)—Rear Ad-
miral Noda, chief of the Navy In-
formation Bureau said today that
Japan must "seriously consider
whether the American Navy build-
ing program is a menace to Japan.
Admiral Noda was discussing
statements of Admiral William Le-
high, chief of operations of the U.
S. Navy before the House Naval
Affairs Committee. He was asked
whether the American program
menaced Japan.
"We must seriously consider that
situation," he answered.
In parliament General Yens Sue-
iyanin, war minister, urged immed-
iate enactment of a general mobili-
zation act.
Prince Fumimaro Konoye said
that a mobilization bill was being
drafted. This bill was expected to
intensify central control of all ac-
tivity on a war basis.
Limestone Road
Given Approval
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 3, (U.R)-
Stearns S. Tucker deputy state
administrator announced today
approval of 41 new works pro-
gress administration projects in-
volving federal expenditures of
$60(1,716 and expenditure of $330,-
600 by local governmental agen-
cies.
Included Linwstone county con-
■truction of 7 timber bridges and
culverts on Thjrnton to Oletha
farm-to-market road; federal
fun**, $2,204; sponsors' funds
$3,101*; workers, 34.
Goddard Signs
Film Contract
Film Protege of
Chaplin Signs
for Long Term
HOLLYWOOD, eb. 3 <U.R)— Pau-
lette Goddard, film protege of
Charlie Chaplin, today was signed
to a long term contract by David O.
Selznick, reviving long circulating
rumors that she has hern selected
for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in
the proposed Selznick International
picture, "Gone With The Wind."
The studio said the actress would
be given a test for the Scarlett
O'Hara part, but stoutly denied
that she had already been awarded
the role.
No details of the agreement,
which was reached after several
weeks of negotiating, were avail-
able, beyond that a "significant
statement would be released in sev-
eral weeks."
The contract will call for Miss
Goddard to play her first feature
role for a producer other than
Chaplin, with whom she appeared
in his last film, "Modern Times."
Several months ago stories were
published that the actress had been
chosen for the coveted role in
"Gone With the Wind" a Civil War
picture based on the recent best
seller of the same name. The re-
ports were denied by both Selznick
and Miss Goddard.
PROBE LAND
OFFICE HITS
MANY SNAGS
Member of Senate
Committee Forced
to Participate in
Investigation
HEARBANKER
Much Difficulty
Is Experienced
Finding Witness
AUSTIN, Feb. 3 <U.R) — The
State Senate land investigation
committee, laboring under absence
both of witnesses and committee
members, ran into several dead
ends today.
Sen. R. A. Weinert of Seguin,
was summoned to attend by a state
ranger. His appearance after sev-
eral days absence caused laughter
from fellow committeemen that
stopped proceedings for a time.
With full steam up the commit-
tee traced down a bank account of
Land Commissioner W. W. McDon-
ald at Gorman, Texas. Then they
discovered the account was closed
out in 1932, four years before Mc-
Donald became land commissioner
and that it never amounted to more
than $100. Banker E. D. David of
Gorman, was excused after his tes-
timony about the account and or-
dered to send down a statemnet of
a fund to aid McDonald's campaign
gathered by N. D. Gallagher of
Gorman.
W. W. Heath was questioned a-
bout a California trip with Mc-
Donald and Tom Clark of Dallas,
former law partner of Attorney
General William McCraw.
Ranger W. E. Naylor reported
continued difficulty in locating
witnesses. His inquiring in seeking
J. T. Dawson brought out that
Dawson had seismograph reports
on the Gulf Coast area.
I. E. Carwell of Burkburnet had
testified that Dawson, who was
carried on the books of a lease pool
as "brokerage" had been taken in
because of his knowing of "good
spots" on which to bid.
Heath's testimony was enlivened
when he said he had talked to Mc-
Donald about the investigation.
The conversation it developed was
a statement that McDonald thou-
ght the investigation was getting
along alright from his standpoint.
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Where "Pirate'
Sub is Sought
FRANCE
Barcelona
MADRID
Valencia •
SPAIN
Cartagena
Almeria
Malaga
Gibraltar —
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JO too ISO
Giant
Crash
Bombers
In Air;
4 Are Rescued
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3. (UP)—Two giant Navy bombing
planes collided in air and sank 70 miles at sea last night'in
view of scores of warships massed in sham battle maneuvers.
Ten men were lost and four were taken from the water ser-
iously injured.
It was the navy's worst disaster
to heavier than air craft.
The plaines, scouting for a po-
tential enemy invader as part of |
the maneuvers, crashed during a
squall at 8:37 p. m. (PST). One
burst into flames and both plunged
UNITED PRESS
MARKET NOTES
The star southeast of Cartagena,
Spain, in the map above, shows
where four British destroyers are
threshing the Mediterranean Sea
to locate the "pirate" submarine
which sank the British steamer
Endymion with loss of 11 lives.
The destroyers are under orders
to attack the submarine "without
hesitation" if it should resist cap-
ture.
Strength abroad and the return
of fair weather to the Southwest
intothe w^'^d"s^k^medi^ finabled whe8t futwes t0 make net
ly. Searchlights from several bat-1 *a,"s today on the chicaso Board
tleships and more than 20 destroy-! "[ Trade m spite of P™«ure brou-
ers lighted the area for miles. ?.h'' out by weakness securities
Small'boats were lowered quick- " ume ^as ''8ht. At the close
..... wheat was. % to % cent hieher.
Dallas Crash
Kills I, Hurts
17 Other Men
Truck Carrying
WPA Workers in
Vehicle Mishap
ly from the warships. The four sur-
vivors were picked up and rushed
to the hospital ship. Only floating
bits of wreckage marked the scene
of the accident.
Vi to % cent higher.
Corn T/* cent higher and oats un
changed to % cent higher.
Railroad obligations led a sharp
decline in domestic corporation
All night crews of dozens of I bonds today. Industrials slumped in
DALLAS, Feb. 3,
man was killed and 17 others
injured, several seriously, today
when a lumber truck collided in
a heavy fog with a truck loaded
with 1 fi WPA workers near Dal-
las.
The victim was identified by a
Social Security Card as Joe Mia-
eska, 50, Dallas WPA laborer.
The lumber truck, driven by
Clint Yeager, of Cairo, Texas, ov-
erturned when the two machine?
ships searched for more survivors
or bodies of the ten who were lost.
Nothing more was found and at
dawn every airplane of the fleet,
300 from the carriers Lexington
and Saratoga .and other scouting
planes atttached to battleships
were sent out to continue the
search. j Industrial shares dropped frae-
All available craft of the Pacific 1 tions to more than four points dur-
fleet are massed in the maneuvers, j ing a sharp reaction in curbs today.
They include 90 warships and hun- j Trading was quiet. Oils and utility
(U p) Qne I dreds of planes. j leaders held fractional declines.
Admiral Claude C. Bloth, new I 4- ——
sympathy with stocks. Utilities
showed a moderate downturn. U. S.
Government liens followed the
trend reacting from early firmness
to show losses ranging to 8/32
point. Italian and Latin American
issues led a quiet decline in foreign
dollar bonds.
commander in chief of the fleet '
said the accident was due to the I
rain squall. News of the crash was
not given out at the naval base
here until after midnight.
The planes were two-motored
crafts, considered the most power-
ful airbo^ts in the world. Each car-
ried a capacity crew of seven men.
There were sleeping quarters a-
hoard for men not on duty and it
Beauty Shop Board
Displeases Auditor
AUSTIN, Feb. 3 <U.R) —Disci-
pline and deportment in the office
of the state beauty shop board and
expense accounts for traveling dis-
pleased Tom C. King, state auditor
and efficiency expert in his exami-
nation made for report for the gov-
ernor and legislature, released to-
day.
By UNITED PRESS
New York March cotton closed
yesterday at 8.42-43 and today at
8.45.
New Orleans March cotton
closed yesterday at 8.55 and today
at 8.58.
crashed, injuring the driver. The j was believed that some, of them
WPA gravel truck, driven by R | may have died in their sleep.
A. West of Pleasant Grove, swer- j — —o —
ved and thrwe the men riding on j ^ , y ... .
the back to the road LOnVlCtS WOW
Miaeska was killed instantly.
Drivers of the two trucks said |
their visibility was limited to 20
feet by the foe when the crash I
occurred. The labor crew was en-
route from Dallas to Reinhardt.
Reported Two
British Ships
Are Captured
Say Loyalists
Take Vessels
to an Island
to Bar Escape
Texas Unemployed
Are Sent $10,966
"Cherry Hill" Pen
Having Its Face
Lifted in Plan
(UP)
BARCELONA, Feb. 3, (U.R)—A
reliable, source asserted today
that two British steamships carry-
injr coal had been captured by
Spanish nationalist cruisers and
were taken to a Mediterranean
island off Barcelona.
The only islands off Barcelona
are the Balearics. lying to the
southwest. The United Press
Barcelona Bureau in sending its
dispatches indicated it was strict-
ly limited or the present to the
PHILADELPHIA, Feb
—Eastern penitentiary, known j report cited.
AUSTIN, Feb. 3, (U.R)—During variously to released prisoners as A rumor circulated in Barcelona
the first week of benefit pay- Cherry Hill and "the Rock Pile" i last night that the British steam-
ments, which began January 25 I j„ having its face lifted. ship Endymion had been sunk by
$10,9fifi was issued to 2,500,000; Inmates have been set to work a mine and was not torpedoed,
eligible unemployed Texans from j modei'nizing the old prison to Stanley Thomas, mate of the
the unemployment trust fund, Or- niake it, virtually escape-proof, ac- j Endymion and one of the four
ville S. Carpenter, director of the rordin^ to Warden Herbert Smith i survivors told the United Press
unemployment compensation com-: Cherry Hill long has been a I that he noted a movement in the
mission.
Farr Agrees Fight
Former Champ Baer
NEW YORK, Feb. 3 <U.R) —Tom-
my Farr of Wales agreed to fight
former Champion Max Baer today
in Madison Square Garden on
March 11 with the winner to meet
the winner of the heavyweight title
fight scheduled in June between
Max Schmeling and Champion Joe
Louis.
Little Business Men Score
Severely New Deal Aims
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U.R) —
The little business men's confer-
ence today approved resolutions
asking more liberal loans, severely
criticizcd muiy New Deal mea-
sures amid an uproar that led to
forcable rejection of two delegates.
The meeting then adjourned sine
die leaving to the ten chairmen the
task of drafting the mass of reso-
lutions into proper form for ub-
mission to President Roosevelt to-
morrow.
The rejected delegates were A.
8. Shaeffer, Philadelphia contrac-
tor, who also was ejected yester-
day, and Robert Kaempfer, self
styled forgotten man from New
York.
The pair were dragged from au-
ditorium by guards in a scene that
accompanied approval of all resolu-
tions and reports submitted by the
committee of ten round table
groups.
The resolutions asked revision
or repeal of the Wagner Labor Act,
repeal of undistributed profits and
corporative gains taxes and liberal-
ization of >ecurities and exchange
regulations will be drafted into fi-
nal form by a ten-man committee
for submission to the president.
The outbreak started when
Kaempfer attempted to obtain the
floor to speak in behalf of the
Schwellenbach-Allen bill to finance
3,000,000 WPA jobs.
Just as quiet was restored Shaef-
fer rose in defense of Kaempfer,
demairKttng that the forgotten man
bt allowed to talk.
source of uneasiness to city and j water 100 yards from the ship
state officials. For many years it j before it was sunk. He scoffed at
has been thp scene of escapes, sui-; the suggestion that the Endymion
cides, "sit-down strikes" and var-j struck a mine.
ious other disorders.
Now, Smith said, the convicts j
are busy constructing new electric j
gates, a modern powerhouse
storehouse, recreational facilities
and additional space for over-
crowded inmates.
The new gates will replace the One Mexia's newest business
old iron-studded wooden ones nstitutions is the Mexia Machinery
which have shut behind "society's ' ompany, located at 106 West
unfortunate" for more than a cen- 'a'n and owned by W. W. Wil-
tury. They will be operated from -iams and J. R. Jones.
a single control tower surrounded The business, which was openel
Two Mexia Men
Open Business
by bullet-proof glass.
Smith said the "face-lifting op-
erations" were madp necessary be-
cause of overcrowding conditions
where 1,300 prisoners had been us.
ing space normally accommodat-
ing only 1,000.
"We have two old generators
which were taken from the battle-
ship Virginia when it was put out
of commission in 1910," he said.
•nly a short time ago, is doing well
according to its owners.
The International-McCormick-
Deering line of implements is
handled by the company. Included
n the business is the complete lin?
f implements and trucks, machine
iwp and dairy equipment.
VV ■ V* . W illiaiKB, one of th? ovt.
era is a native of this county hav-
The jail break of 1934, when ''ve<l in Mexia for four year,
five convicts swam half a mile For 12 years he was connecteJ
through the prison sewer pipe to wilh a machine shop in Lubbock,
freedom, will not be possible un-1 J- R- Jones, theother owner, i
der the ney system, Smith said a native of Illinois and until be
The two old 19-inch pipes which coming coanwud with the Pure Oi:
the convicts used in their break Company here four years ago h ■
■re to be replaced with 14 six- was in th? contracting business in
inch ones. j Illinois.
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