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HalMIsville, Texas, Tuesday, May 26th, 1936.
NUMBER 42.
LINE
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President Roosevelt will
visit this State next month
4) to pay his respects to Tex.
in its Centennial year.
This also is the first time
Roosevelt will visit with us
as the head of the nation.
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According to the present
program, tne President will
stop at Houston and San An-
tonio, then at Dallas and
jFort Worth — visiting the
principal cities and wiiat a
olow this will be to the re-
publican chances to carry
this great pivotal State of
the South.
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Last year’s cotton crop to-
taled 10,630,391, according
to the latest government re-
port. Tnis was one million
bales more than the preced-
ing crop. How much cotton
wul be produced under this
year’s plan?
This will depend upon co-
operation of the farmers,
but in many sections the
plan came too late for farm-
ers to cooperate. Then the
plan is voluntary. There is
no penalty, but also no price
guaranty.
• * •
Again the plan fails to re-
cognize the farmer who al-
ready has been farming pro-
perly. He still has to reduce
ms cash crops no matter how
much he has done so already,
otherwise he can’t qualify.
9 9 9
Next year a state farm
law is to oomc. If you al-
ready have been doing
what the plan calls for,
why should you 'not be en-
titled to the reward the
same as your neighbor vrho
started row adjusting his
farming according to the
plan? — But that will be
largely up to you, small
farmers.
BLACK LEGION /?£-
SPONSIBLE FOR
50 DEATHS
DETROIT, May 24. —The i
round-up of “night riders” of
the bloody black Legion
spread Sunday as officials
directed their inquiry to re-
ports a membership totaling
135,000 in Michigan alone
may be responsible for some
50 deaths.
In Detroit Prosecutor Dun-
can C. McCrea said murder
warrants would be issued
Monday for seven present at
the “execution'’ oi diaries
A. Poole, young PWA worx-
er, and said tne prosecution
would include as many as
may be identified by some
50 persons present at a
black Legion meeting from
which Pooie, a non-member,
was taken to his death.
OIL DRILLING IN NEW
LOCATION
DAMAGES AWARD
ED IN NEGRO
LYNCHING
According to latest oil news
reports, preparations are be-
ing made ior the drilling of
a well on the farm oi trank
Kurc, of Henkhaus.
THUMBED RIDE—GOT IT!
Escaped convict M. I. Ca-
vendish thumbed a ride near
Flatonia Thursday night and
he got it. The man in the car
was Captain E. E. Moss, man
ager of the Harlem prison
farm and he was glad to give
I Cavendish a ride back to the
ifarm, from which he, with
Frank Kuccra, escaped Wed-
nesday afternoon. Kucera
was caught by City Marshall
Simmons the same night
here at Hallettsville, Caven-
dish escaping.
. ... . c w * i But Captain Moss figured
Archbishop Diaz of Mexico ^at Cavendish will come out
is dead. But that was not e-
nough to the present rulers
of that so-called republic. He
had. to be denied even in his
death the honors which Ca-
tholics wished to accord their
dead leader.
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“What a martyrdom!”
were the dying words of
Archbishop Diaz .But it was
not the first, nor the last
time, the Church has been
persecuted. And almost al-
ways it is done i^the name
of liberty of some
at night and he was right.
MEXICO REFUSES TO
LET PRELATE’S BODY
REPOSE IN STATE
i done i^he m
of some^od.
* * *
me ago at MR a
Some time ago at HBadie-
ville, La., otherwise peaceful
citizens lynched 16-year-old
negro Fred Moore, under sus-
picion of killing a white girl.
Two sheriff's deputies sur-
rendered the youth and one
of them, according to the
testimony, helped in lynching
him.
• • •
Now at New Orleans a jury
of white men awarded thj
parents of the lynched youth
2500 dollars in damages a-
gainst the Sheriff of Labadie
ville, for the step-father of
the girl confessed to her mur
der. So much for the Sher-
iff, but what about the
lynchers?
• • •
In the last five years this
country has gained 5 millions
in population, or a million a
year. Several states lost in
Dpulation, suen as Kansas,
eoraska, South Dakota —
hard hit with sand storms:
or Michigan and Wisconsin
because of the depression.
All southern states show
gain in population, except
Mexico City, May 21. —
Mexican Catholics were frus-
trated today in plans to have
the body of the late Archbi-
shop Paschal Diaz lie in state
in the Mexico City Cathedral
until Friday, when his funer-
al will be held.
The minister of interior an-
nounced me government had
turned down a formal re-
quest by Alberto Carreno,
secretary of the episcopate,
to permit the body to lie in
state in the cathedral on
grounds it “would be con-
trary to the laws of the go-
vernment regarding religious
worship.”
Relatives of the archbishop
revealed he died murmuring:
“What martyrdom!”
NEW ORLEANS, May 21.
—The parents of a 16-year-
old negro boy lynched near
Labadieville, La., in Queen,
were awarded $2509 damag-
es from Sheriff Lezin H. Hi-
mel of Assumption parish
Thursday by a jury of white
men in federal court.
It probably was the first
time in tne history of tne
South that negroes won per-
sonal damages lor u lynch-
ing.
x rosccution witnesses said
two ucputies aeuvereu me
ooy to me mob and mat one
deputy aocited tne lyneners.
1 ne uoy, t red iviooie, was
suspected oi murdering JVnss
An,ue Mae Larose, wno was
lound m a cane field witn
ner throat cut. Later, tne
girl’s stepfather was said to
nave comessed the murder.
U. S. UlfUMf UKUF IS ES- j
TlMAlED AT 10,36d,UUU
BALES
Washington, May 22.—Re-
vised estimates oi tpe isoo
cotton crop announced today
by the department of agri-
culture gave production as
10.638.000 bales each of 500
pounds gross weight, compar-
ed with 9,636,000 lor lu34.
Ginnings of 10,6o8,39l bales
were reported oy the census
bureau compared with v,-
636,073 for 1934.
Yield of lint cotton picked
was 186.3 pounds an acre,
compared with 171.6 for
1934.
The area of cotton in culti-
vation July 1 last year was
27.888.000 acres, compared
with z<,860,000 for 1934, and
the area picked was 27,ooo,-
000 acres, compared with 2b,-
866.000 for 1934.
The first report on this
year’s cotton planting will bo
announced July 8 showing
the acreage in cultivation
July 1. The first condition
report will be issued August
8.
RECEIVED HfifK
CANDIDATE
FAMILY SPENDS
TEN HOURS ON
RAFT
!
After more than ten hours
of exposure to the rain and
cold, seven persons were res-
cued Sunday from their raft
of tables and barrels which
they had constructed in a
vain effort to reach safety.
Early Sunday morning Mr.
Julian Brown discovered that
the Brushy Creek had over-
flowed its banks and com-
FOUR-DAY RAIN
HEAVIEST ON
RECORD
The heaviest rain on. re-
cord was received in this sec-
tion in the last four days. It
started Friday morning and
did not 'stop till Monday
noon. At tnis writing it looks
as though it may clear up.
More then eleven inches of
rain fell in less than four
days. Mr. W. B. Meinardus,
pleteiy surrounded his home I local weather man, reports:
whicn was situated on a | Friday, 1.10, Saturday 5.25,
small knoll. At the time he! Sunday 3.75, Monday .30, to-
Mrs. Frances Mayfield
Rausdell,
RT. REV. MSGR. fc. H. GKRLACH
Pastor of Hitfh Hill Parish which next Monday cele-
brates triple jubilee: 25 years of his pastorate at High
Hill, 50 years of his priesthood, and 75 years since the
first Mass was offered at the parish.
SHORT HISTORY OF HIGH HILL
PARISH, 1860-1935.
By: CELINE KAINER
It was in the year 1860 on
the twelfth of September,
when several families of the
parish Neudeck, Bczirk Weis-
skirchen, Kreis Neititzschcin,
Kronland Manren, Austria,
tired of the hard times which
confronted them in the old
world and with the best of
hopes to better tneir condi-
tion, left their country in or-
der to seek their freedom ac-
ross the ocean, and came to
lieh, who had settled there be-
fore, received them with
great hospitality. After a
few days’ stay, they contin-
ued their journey to High
Hill which, at that time, was
known by the name of “Blu-
menhill," but has been chang-
ed to High Hill. The entire
settlement, at that time, con-
sisted of six families, who re-
sided miles apart from each
Candidate for Co. Attorney,
Gonzales County.
Voters of Gonzales County
will have an opportunity to
elect this year as their Coun-
ty Attorney a lady who has
remarkable training and ex-
perience as a lawyer, as well
as a fine personality as a
lady. Tne candidate is Mrs.
Frances Mayfield Ransdell.
She served under two attor-
neys general in Austin, Dan
Moody and present governor
Allred, also as assistant coun
sel for the Banking Depart-
ment under Commissioner
Charles O. Austin. In 1934
Attorney Ransdell was ap-
pointed U. S. Federal Coun-
ciliation Commissioner — an
enviable record for a young
lawyer.
During her residence at
Gonzales, Mrs. Ransdell has
been assistant attorney and
secretary to the receiver of
the Farmers’ National bank.
Receiving her first educa-
tion at the Whitis School in
Austin, Mrs. Ransdell gra-
duated from high school in
I Georgetown and attended
Southwestern University. Her
B. A. and LL. B. degrees she
has from the University of
_______ __________ ... other. These families were
Texas to settle and make, Graf, Hillje, Seidler, Tauch, Texas.
their homes here. |Eschenburg (all Protestants Attorney (Mrs.) Ransdell
had no fear, tor the Brushy,
which was only a short dis-
tance from tne house, had
risen to this position before.
But the Navidad River, whicn
flows only a short distance
on the otiier side of tne
house and into which tne
Brushy emptied, had greatly
overflowed its banks and was
rising fast. In a short time
both streams had risen to
such an extent that they met
some distance above where
the house stood. The water
continued to rise and when
it reached the house, Mr.
Brown began to fear for the
safety of the rest of the oc-
cupants of the house whicli
consisted of his wife, three
sons, one daughter and a nei-
ghbor girl, Miss Mindy Ful-
ler, who had stayed over
night with them. So he con-
structed a raft from some
tables and barrels which he
had in the house and plac-
ing all on board it he made
an attempt to reach safety.
But the current was so
strong that it was impossi-
ble to cross the stream which
had broadened to about a
mile in width, so he anchor-
ed the raft until help could
reach them.
In the meantime Charlie
Brown, son of Julian Brown,
who had been at his
tal 11.4 inches.
All the creeks were up.
The Lavaca river reached tne
highest level in years. The
Navidad blocked the Schu-
lenburg highway Sunday, ris-
ing five feet above the
bridge, me city was without
railroad service since Friday
because of the weakened
bridge over the Mustang
creek.
The Colorado river stood
at almost 32 feet at Colum-
bus, Sunday, and was still
rising. There was three feet
of water over the highway
near there. Another flood
threatened Wharton.
The Guadalupe again was
flooding the lowlands around
Cuero and Victoria. Addition-
al rise was expected.
Except in some sections,
the damage to crops and
fields is not considered great.
Tne tomatoes ready for pick-
ing are mostly gone, but fa-
vorable weatner may more
than make up for the loss.
ALABAMA IN-
DIANS TO ATTEND
TOM-TOM
tives home, had gone to Hal-1 ^
D Of
YOAKUM, May 22.—Attir-
rela- ed in colorful tnbal regalia,
the Alabama-Coushatti tribe
Wick, Joscpn and Anna Hein-
rich, Anton and Anna Bccl-
narz, Andreas and Anna BiU-
lmek, John and Anna bnu-
hab, Frank and Anna Adam-
ck, Joseph and Anna Holla.-!
and Frank Besetzny (single).
These courageous people left
ARRESTS MARK FARM
WALKOUT
Memphis, Tenn., May 20.—
Wholesale arrests and re-
ports of terrorism accompan-
ied a cotton workers’ strike
in eastern Arkansas today.
At Earle, Ark., 35 negro
farm hands were jailed lor
vagrancy after they left their
field jobs in response to the
strike call of the Southern
Tenant Farmers’ union.
population, suen as Kansas, A planter at Earle report-
Neoraska, South Dakota — ed eight of his sharecroppers
refused to work because
“they were afraid they would
be shot down in the fields.”
Planters and officers in the
affected counties, Crittenden,
Cross and St. Francis, insist-
Texas gained ed WOrk was continuing with
South Carolina | pienty of labor.
15%, Georgia 15%. As a I____
whole the southern states
1200 SUBSIDY
CHECKS
ARRIVE
Lavaca County has receiv-
ed a shipment of 1200 checks,
amounting to approximately | the port Bremen m beptem-
$30,000. This represents a ] ber, i860, and arrived at Ual-
poriion of the money coming' veston, ’Texas, November 18,
to Lavaca County on the 2o laoO. The journey over land
subsidy being paid to farm-. was made by ox-wagon by
ers by the U. S. Government, way o'. Houston, Alicyton
Owing to weather condi-jand Column',s to the nver
tions, which made it impos- Navidad in the neighborhood
sible to deliver checks in1 Qf a piaCe named today Du-
Moulton and bhiner on fucs- tuna, where a countryman,
day and ,,edncsday of tux* bv the name of Joseph Kuh-
week, we had planned to do, I-----------
we will begin at once toide- MOULTON MAN INJURED
liver these checks if those
The names of these farml- from Saxony) and John Ci
ics were: Frank and Anna chos, a German Pole. As can
easily be understood, the
is not a politician, never ran
for public office, but feels
herself qualified and, if e-
iointry'^iT^rti. CTuJdutS.,
the job, Know you always,
and serve the county faith-
of deer and wild turkey. A
heavy snowfall occurred be-
fore and after Christmas in
the same year, which, altho
not at all strange to these
immigrants, was something
quite unusual in Texas.
Christmas!—a.:d no priest.
Christmas arrived! Christ-
mas! in this far and strange,
wild country with no priest,
without Holy Mass and not
even a church, such as they
had been accustomed to since
the days of their childhood.
They resolved to celebrate it,
(Continued on page 3.)
Mississippi.
^4.3 ner cent,
show larger percentage of in-
crease than any other sec-
tion.
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The oenstvt Indicates a
• shifting of population to
the South, as well as frmn
cities to farms. In 1920-80
six million more people left
farms than cities. In the
last five years, the move-
ment reversed. And evi-
dently there will have to
he more shifting from cit-
ies to farms before the
millions of unemployed are
taken oare of.
who have received their cards
will bring them to the olfice
here in Hallettsville. Tncn
on Monday, June 1, all checks
and oftice force will be in
Moulton; on Tuesday, June
2, all checks and office force
will be in Shiner; on Wed-
nesday, June 3, all checks
will be in Hallettsville, and
on Thursday, June 4, all
cnecks will be in Yoakum.
Please take note of these dat-
es and bring your card with
you to tne mo3t convenient
place.
If you do not receive a
card, even though you have
made applications, your
check has not arrived, so it
will not be necessary for you
to come until you receive a
card. We cx|>ect other ship-
ments to follow immediately,
and as sooit as they arrive,
you will re9eive your notice.
—G. C. King, Co. Agent, Hal-
lettsville.
Odessa Churches Being
Destroyed
IN MOTOR CAR WRECK [
Moulton, May 22. — Harry] ---
Wagner, member of a ra i-1 Prague.—According to the
road work crew here, sustain- Russian language paper,
ed the fracture of a leg Wed-, Snamja Rossii, published
nesday when the motor car ■ here, all the remaining
on which he and others were | churches in Odessa, Russia,
going to work turned overJare now being destroyed by
near town. the Bolshcvisits. The church
t of Petropalowsk is already a
! mass of ruins, and the Cath-
! cdral is now being wrecked.
1 Of the five large churches in
1 Roatow on the Don only one
is left. The Cathedral of Pet-
roaadowsk has also been
fully. She appeals for sup-
port to «11 the voters, Dut
especially to all the lady-vot-
ers, to help her, with the as-
surance that their candidate
will do her best to be a cre-
dit to them in the office
which she seeks.
lettsville to try and get help of Indians of East Texas,
and Mr. Emil Schindler and > will attend the Ninth Annual
several of the neighbors were Tomato Tom-Tom to be held
PARK ON ISLAND
Dallas. — Plans are being
made for the development ol
Padre Island, off the coast
of Texas, as a park which
would be one of the most
unusual parks in the world, wrecked.
The island stretches along1 -
the Texas coast from a point Orders Are Conferred on
near Corpus Christi to near | Former Episcopal Rector
the mouth of the Rio Grande. Rome. — The Rev. Mr.
Feature attraction would be a Carl Bothe, former rector of
scenic highway which would an Episcopal church in
permit motorists to drive the; Bronxville, N. Y., took his
length of the island only a, first two minor orders here
few yards from the Gull ; and will be a
surf. The island is well-know ii was born in
for its deep sea and bay fish-
priest. He
Bloomington,
Soviet Attitude Is Not
Changing
Moscow. — Much has been
written lately about a change
in the Soviet government s
attitude toward religion. Lest
anyone be misled into think-
ing it has been a change for
the better, it can be stated,
and shown, that actually it
has been merely a turning
from the more public display
of force to a quiet, insidious
grinding down that brooks
no opposition and gives no1 creek,
hope of redress. Edgar Klitsch lost car.
The change dates from a-, an attempt to cross the
bout Eastertide, 1935, wnen j Camel branch bridge, Satur-
in keeping with a prediction day, a Chevrolet coupe, driv-
ikachevsky, right-hand :en by Edgar Klitsch,
attempting to reach the ma-
rooned party. Schindler had
swum out into the water in
an attempt to reach them,
but unable to see them had
finally located them by cal-
ling. Schindler returned to
shore and a small building
was torn down and made into
a boat.
Cnarlie Brown succeeded in
gettin Alton Allen, Theo.
Long and James Criswell
from Hallettsville to help in
the rescue and when they
reached the rescue party of
neighbors, some of the ma-
rooned party had already
been brought to safety,- But
it was around seven o’clock
Sunday night before all were
safely on land. Mrs. Brown
had remained brave until the
last and when she was brou-
ght to safety she fainted
from the strain.
Mr. Brown lost practically
everything he had on the
farm including his cattle,
poultry and feed. Only some
horses were saved because
in Yoakum June, 5 and 6, it
was announced here by Gen-
eral Co-Chairmen, E. G. Ras-
ka and Meyer Handelman.
Tne Aiaoama Indians, rem-
nants of a once powerful In-
dian nation, and who now in-
habit a government reserva-
tion near Livingston, Texas,
will attend both days of the
tomato festival, and will un-
doubtedly prove to be one of
the outstanding attractions
of the celebration.
Tne Indians will bring with
them their teepees, ceremon-
ial costumes and other rega-
lia with which they are as-
sociated. Ceremonial dances
and other exhibitions of tho
native redskins are planned
for their two-day stay here.
It is expected that Chief
Cooper Sylestine, tribal head,
will accompany the braves to
the festival here.
Tne Indians will also par-
ticipate in the magnificent
pageant during the Corona-
tion of the Queen ceremonies
and their bnlliant costumes
are due to lend remantic co-
otherhasidJriodf tth^ Brushy lor to the spectacle under the
• - «•***> of Bulldog Sta-
l
arc lights
dium here.
by LukacnevsKy, ngiii-imnu:en by Edgar Klitsch, was.
man of Jaroslavsky, leader of washed off into the water
the Militant Atheists, the re- and carried downstream for
ligious persecution assumed'8ome distance,
what has been called a more
“theoretical” aspect.
Wounds Resembled Crucified
Saviour’s
Woonsocket, R. I.—Nearly
3,000 persons thronged Holy
Family church here for the
funeral of Miss Rose Fenton,
33 years old, bedridden inva-
lid who had suffered wounds
said by her family and phy-
sicians to resemble those of
the crucified Saviour. Pro-
foudly religious, Miss Femm
the car had already been! was bedridden since 1923. Sho
____________________ m. washed off the bridge by the ] received Holy Communion
encouraged to follow particu-. strong current of the water. I daily. It is said that she sub-*
lar pious devotions. Four/ When it was later recovered stated on a glass of water
■ motor and chasis and a few drops of a stimu-
lant a day.
Blind Priests Serve Bli.id
Paris. — Between 500 and
600 blind persons in France
are united in a great religious
association in which they are
When the car stalled,
Klitsch removed some of the
tomatoes which he had been
bringing to town, but seeing
this was of no use he left
for help. Mr. Frank Konvic-
ka returned with him but
ningtc
111., and is studying in Bcda blind ‘priests serve as chap-/ only the
college. I lains. j was left.
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