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THE TRIBUNE
For God and Country: Recognizing nghts ot others, we stand for our own!"
UNk-OR-TWU
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The principal thing to re
member about the first of t’>e
proposed amendments is that it
would classify and tax tl-e mo-
ney and papers amounting in
this state to fifty per cent of
total wealth and paying no tax
whatsoever.
Naturally there is a big
agitation against this pro-
posal to tax the “invisible
wealth.” But if they can
tax your small farm, there
is no reason why the
wealth in money and pa-
pers should be escaping.
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The second amendment would
give more power to the com-
missioners’ court. It aims to
combine and eliminate certain
offices and save money to tax-
payers, and that is what most
of the people want, it seems at
—o— Miss Emily Parma of Ennis Leads, While J. S.
The third amendment limits! njl a* L t t c j • .i n* .
the state tax to $22.50 per ca- Martinka of Granger Is Second in the First
pita in two years, and a ques-
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With the last support In place, and the tlnnl holt tightened In the
structure, Old Glory was placed atop the scaffolding that has been built
I about the e.i5-foot shaft thut Is the Washington monument In the National
Capital, and the work of renovating repairing anil refurbishing the greet
obelisk now ftoes forward. The erection of the scaffolding was a major
engineering feut.
t'ion arises whether that would
be enough for all the state
needs, including of course all
that considerable waste going
on in spite of all depression.
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The first three amendments
tire most important. The oth-
er five are of less importance
and comply with, more or less,
what is wanted. Above all
-— do not neglect to vote Nov.
6th.
General Colics is chiefly
responsible for the anti-Ca-
thoJic movement in Mexico.
He started as an ordinary
school teacher and today
is one of the wealthy men
and the boss of Mexico —
a wonderful patriot, no
doubt.
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Perhaps you may think that
the fight in Mexico has no
meaning outside of the religion
and Church. But it will be
well to remember that if the
Church and religion go, your
property, family and other
rights will not amount to much.
It is a communistic threat —
you know.
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Report of the Circulation Campaign
The first repent of th’ campaign j the Catholic Piess and at the same
shows in this issue and from the ap- time receive a reward for your work,
pearence of things it means that there ! No time like now to cinch the
will be a race between the folks1 $25.00 in cash, get those new sub-
reaching from the Central part of
the Stf».*e to the utmost Southern
pait as Mrs. John I. Marik of East
B’ernurd will not sit idly by and
watch the people from Ennis and
Granger carry off the honors in this
race.
This first report shows just who
is interested and it means there will
be many changes before the race is
over. The main thing for the can-
didates to do is to get after those
new ones as they will be counting
lots more extra credit offer which
expires the 10th of November, and
too, there is the $25.00 in cash for
scribers and at the same time watch
the extra credits pile up for you
on the tenth of November.
Miss Emily Parma, Ennis—225,000
Mr. J. S. Martinka, Granger,--221,000
Mrs. John I. Marik, East
Bernard, - 215,000
Mr. Emil Muska, Moulton,
Rt. 1,
Mrs. James Hradecky, El
Campo, Rt. 2,
Miss Bea /vesper. La
Grange.
Mr. John Polansky,
Caldwell,
the one with the most new subscrip-; Rt. 6,
Mrs. Joe Richter, Yoakum,
tions turned in by that date, so
those who are really interested, they
had beter hit the ball real hard now
up to the 10th of November as
early work will surely win the major
awards in this campaign.
If they will work each and every
has no day at this job of collecting new
and renewal subscriptions thdy will
find it to pay larger dividends by
far more than any thing else they
can do.
There is still room for a few more
212,000
210.000
209.000
200.000
198,000
The bank deposits in Houston
increased almost one-third dur-
ing the past year, according to
the report of Oct. 17th. A
year ago Houston had 144 mil-
lions, this year 190 million dol-
lars in bank deposits.
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The money in banks helps
little unless it can be
employed and thus give
employment to the people.
President Roosevelt made
requests to hankers and
they gave promises to-
wards employing more
money.
Farmers in Harris County
Mr. Joa J. Sembera,
Wharton, - 196,000
Mrs. Lydia Alblinger H’vilte 125,000
Mr. J. W. Krenek, El Campo—96,000
Mia* Annie Kokaah,
Gonzales,-- 93,000
Mr. Prank Nora, Abbot,
- 12,000
Dallas Woman
Honored by Pope
Dallas, Oct. 26. —(AP)—The most
Rev. Joseph P. Lynch, bishop of the
diocese of Dallas, said Thursday up-
vn his tetum from Rome that the
Papal decoration—Pro Ecclesia Et
Pontifice—has been conferred by
Pope Pius XI upon Mrs. Frank T.
Buell of Dallas.
The decoration was awarded, Bi-
shop Lynch said, in recognition of
her eminence in Christian qualities
and her service to Christian charity
and education.”
Bishop Lynch said she wus the
first Texan to be thus iccognized
by the Roman pontiff.
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Hauptmann Identified
By Jafsie
Jersey City, N. J., Oct. 25. —
(AP)—The Jersey Journal in a new
story today said the state of New
Jersey will contend at the trial of
Btuno Richard Hauptmann that
the infant son of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh was deliberately slain in
his crib the night of the kidnaping,
March 1, 1932, and his dead body
then carried away by the kidnaper
This, the paper says, is wfry no
indictment for kidnaping has been
brought against Hauptmann, who
pleaded not guilty yesterday to an
indictment charging him with the
murder of the child.
Two Soviet Officials
Slain For Sabotage
Moscow, Oct. 25.' — Two Soviet
officials were put to death by firing
squads today for counter-revolution
ary activities and sabotage which
resulted in the destruction of state
property.
They were Kokhan Nikolai, chief
of the Sosnovsky state grain farm,
and Mikhail Strebkov, president of
the collective futm in that state.
Both were sentenced by the West
Siberian Circuit Court, which is in
vestigating poor grain collections in
that area. Nikolai was charged
with failing to dry grain and place
it in the wrehouse with the result
that 300 tons of grain was ruined.
The prosecutor charged Stepkov
permitted horses to be neglected
with the result that marry of them
' died.
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3.2 Beer Brings
Dean Law Term
Catholics in Mexico Resisting Tyranny
Priests and Bishops Left Country
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ALL CHURCHES IN
CHIHUAHUA ARE
CLOSED
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Permits of Priests Can-
celed and State Offi-
cial Placed in Charge
of Property; Bishop
Flees.
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Juarez, Mexico, Oct. ili — All
churches in the state of Chihuahua
were closed Thursday and the per-
mits of the five priests permitted
to officiate in the state were can-
celed by order of Governor Rod-
rigo Quevedo.
The governor placed his secre-
tary of state in charge of all church
property. Committees of 10 members
each known as Juntas vecinales, will
be named in each community to
take over and inventory church pro-
perty.
Bishop Antonio Guizar Valencia
of Chihuahua was on his way to
El Paso, Texas. The government
announced that priests whose per-
mits have been canceled will be per-
mitted to reside in the state.
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Mexico, D. F., Oct. 25. —The first
deaths resulting from the current
official movement against the Ca-
tholic church in Mexico were repor-
ted today from Queretaro. Mis-
taken indentity cuused them.
Delayed dispatches from Her-
clues, Queretaro, just outside the
state capital, said police and sol-
diers fired upon each when each
The archbishop of Chiapas was
reported to have been expelled, while
the other churman was given asy-
lum by Catholic organizations in
Guatemala.
Classes resumed their normal
schedule at the National University
after u decision of the . tudents to
refrain from mixing in politics.
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Demonstration Set.
Designed to prove th» govern
ment’s statements that its social-
istic education and anti-religious
policies have the support of the vast
majority of people, 150,000 workers
and their families planned to par-
ade in a manifestation Sunday.
The cauntry generally remained
quiet, there being no renewal of
last week’s demonstrations.
At Tampico the governor issued
two ultimatums, one to parents of
striking students, the other to gov-
ernment employes. The workers
who do not define their socialistic
attitude in five days will be dis-
missed. The parents of students op
posed to their children’s return be-
fore October 26, will lo6e the right
to free education, the governor de-
cided.
The governor's action was de-
signed to put an end to all agita-
tion against the program for social-
istic education.
What he tells them to do they do.
When he says resign, they resign.
And Calles is in constant fear.
He never travels a foot from his
house without a large armed guard.
"Mexico can never have peace
while he lives. He is the one that
is pushing the religious persecution.
force mistook the other for p?r- And he is the one that is behind the
sons attempting to prevent carry- new educational program,
ing out of the governor’s order to **He is simply a Communist. He
close all churches. Several were Sp=nt six months in Russia and got
killed and a number wounded. his ideas theie that he is putting in
Anti-Catholic elements, encour- effect here.”
aged by the support of Gen. Plu- Mexico Fears Infarvention Of
tarco Elias Calles, moved to bring l Roosevelt
about the expulsion from Mexico of Mexico, D. F., Oct. 29. — (AP)
all archbishops and bishops.
Rt. 2,-
Mr. Emil Wagoner,
Yorktown,
entries, no charges to enter, just
send in your name and see if you
can’t head the list in a few short
weeks. Now is the time to get
in your reports and it will pay to
make them as often as possible.
The campaign is for a good cause,
there is no reason as to why you
should not take part in helping
also ask something different
than the cotton law. They
too want the reduction based
on the size of the family. The
larger the family, the larger the
allotment of cotton.
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Again we repeat — you,
small formers, will accom-
plish plenty, if you suc-
ceed in obtaining the re-
duction based on the culti-
vated acreage instead of
the reduction based on the
cotton crop only.
50,000 Attend Floyd Funeral. Five Carloads
of Floral Offerings Snatched as Souvenirs
Akins, Okla., Oct. 29. — (UP)—
An unruly crowd estimated at 50,-
000 Sunday gave Charles Arthur
(Pretty Boy) Floyd the biggest
funeral in Oklahoma history.
Hillbilly friends and curious from
15 states jammed this hills hamlet,
wrecked the small graveyard and
fought over flowers from the notor-
ious killer’s casket.
The Rev. W. E. Rockett, Baptist
minister, read the last words of
Christ on the cross—“It is finished"
—in a service that was heard by
only a few in the milling throng.
Men, women and children fainted,
so great was the press. A traffic
jam for miles around the grave-
yard stalled the hearse and funeral
procession for over an hour while
special officers labored to move traf-
fic.
Five automobile loads of flowers,
ranging from wildflowers of his na-
tive hills to an elaborate blanket of
carnations, were brought to tho des
perado’s funeral. But none remain
ed on hts grave Sunday night. A
clawing, fighting mob snatched them
from the $350 gray casket. Guns
were flashed in one quarrel over
floral souvenirs.
- 12,000
Mr. John R. Prana,
Schuienburg, - 12,000
Mrs. Peter Kosib, Seguin,-12,099
Student at Cuero
Dies After Eating
Some Green Pecans
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Cuero, Oct. 26. — Green pecans
were blamed Friday for the death
of Oscar Frels, 14, Cuero High
student, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Frels of Concrete.
The boy died a few hours after
he was stricken. He ate a quantity
of green pecans, considered highly
dangerous at this season of the
year, Thursday afternoon.
He is survived by his parents;
one brother, Edmund, and two sis-
ters, Miaaes Wilma and Norma, all
of Concrete.
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Texas Cotton
Buyers Found
Washington, D. C., Oct 25. —
(AP)—The farm administration to-
day advised the office of Representa
live Kleberg, (Democrat, Texas),
that the National Cotton Certifi-
cate pool had found buyers for ex-
cess certificates representing more
than 700,000 bales. The adminis-
tration, answering claims of some
growers the exchange of certificates
from areas of great surpluses—such
as Texas—to sections where they
are desired was too slow, asserted
it was now possible to make such a
transfer from California to Vir-
ginia “within a few minutes”.
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Governor Proclaims
Texas Cheese Week
Austin, Oct. 26. — Governor Mir-
iam A. Ferguson has proclaimed
November 11-17 as "cheese week in
Texas.”
Texans were urged to help cat a
cheese surplus of 1,500,000 pounds.
j McKinney, Texas, Oct. 23. — (IN
S)—Convicted of a charge of pos-
session of 3.2 beer in violation of
the stringent Dean Law, Loyd Bos-
well today faced a year term in the
state penitentairy. Collin county
voted dry in 1902 and has remained
in that status since. Court observ-
ers here believed this was the first
conviction of its kind since beer was
legalized in Texas.
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Pope Blesses Texas
Clergy
Vatican City, Oct. 26. — (AP)—
Pope Pius today delivered a special
benediction to the Catholic priests
and laymen’s commission which is
preparing a Catholic history of Tex
as in connection with the 1936 cele-
bration of the centenary of Texan
! independence.
He gave the benediction to Bishop
Christopher E. Byrne of Galveston,
with authority for him to transnit
it when he returns to Texas.
Expressing keen interest in all
the affairs of the huge state, the
pope also thanked Bishop Byrne
and the other bishops and priests
of all Texas for “your devoted feal-
ty in caring for the religious needs
of the hundreds of thousands of
Mexicans,” who Bishop Byrne report
ed had a sort of spiritual refuge
in Texas as a result of the church
state wrangle in their own country.
Following his private audience
with the pope at which he delivered
the pontifical quenquennial report on
his diocese, Bishop Byrne said:
The holy father also showed
deep interest in the recovery
throughout the United States and
was graftified when I was able to
report that Texas, at least, seemed
to be coming out of the slump."
Tho bishop introduced to the pope
the Rev. Father Augustine O’Con-
nell of St. Mary’s cathedral, Gal-
veston, and the Rev. Father An-
drew Deslatte of Houston, Texas
who is at present studying in the
American college of Rome.
Bishop Byrne will return to the
United States November 9.
Calles Back Move.
The former president and “su-
preme chief” of the revolution told
deputies and senators that
Mexican Catholics were planning a
subversive movement "will know how
to meet it.”
“I am in accord with the major-
ity of points in the plan of action
formulated by the chamber of de-
puties against reactionaries and
the clergy,” he said.
“I regard the expulsion of arch-
bishops as necessary because they
are the direct cause of the present
agitation and especially because they
are organizing in preparations for
a movement.”
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Churches Closed.
A proposal by the chamber of
deputies for expulsion of archbishops
and bishops is still before the direct
ors of the national revolutionary!
(government) party. Meanwhile' The newspaper charged the clergy
churches have been closed in six was "apt to commit treason in order
states and priests expelled from to satisfy its desire for vengeance
several of them. 1 and its ambition to command.”
The newspaper La Fresna said | A crowd estimated to number 200,
today it was informed unofficially (000 paraded Sunday through the prin
the Catholic archbishops of Chia- cipal streets of the capital and in
pas and Oaxaca had left the coun-__■ _
try- _ (See CATHOLICS, on page 2)
The newspaper El Nacional publish-
ed Sunday an allegedly intern pted
letter from a mysterious "Suphi;” in
Washington D. C., purporting to
show that Mexican Catholics are at-
tempting to draw President Rooae-
velt into the national religious con-
flict. The newspaper is the of-
ficial otgan of the national revolu-
tionary (gavemment) party.
El Nacional said the mysterious
“Sophie” had several confer ncus
with high dignitaries of the Catho-
lic church in the United States, seek
ing their moral support and “to im
press President Roosevelt against
the cause of tht people of Mexico.
"High dignitaries of the church in
Mexico,” said El Nacional, “besides
directing anti-govt mment agitation
and preparing an armed revolt and
possibly a political assassination, are
attempting to obtain foreign inter-
vention, if not armed, at least moral
and diplomatic.’
Treason Is Feared
Lamb County Man Protests Present
Government Cotton Control Plan
E. Boesen, Sudan business man regarded the
pioneer and faithful Catholic, Sacred
Heart Parish of Littlefield, Texas
capitalist, has entered vigorous pro-
test with the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture and Congress-
man Marvin Jones, against the pre-
sent plan of cotton control under
the Bankhead Bill.
Mr. Boesen, in his letter, has pro-
tested that the present operation of
the bill, protects the large grower
and very unjustly penalizes the
small grower says “The Lamb Coun-
ty Lender”.
This, in Mr. Boesen’s opinion, is
exceedingly detrimental to the econ-
omic condition of the country and re
duces to virtually nothing the in-
come of the small grower.
"Under the operation of the Bank
head mill,” said Mr. Boesen tho
largo planter, who had virtually ev-
ery acre of his land !.-* cotton, Is
same as the small
farmer who planted only, probably
one third or less of hi3 land in
cotton. But the big planter, because
of his large acreage, was not cut
down to such an extent that he is
forced to pay the special tax that
is upon the small planter. Iff
other words, the big planter can
gin lots of cotton free of tax and
the small planter can gin only a
few bales without special tax.
‘If we had raised a normal
crop of cotton in this country this
year the present operation of ti e
Bankhead Bill would have brought
ruination to the small farmer, and
when you destroy the small farmer
you have wrecked our economic posi-
tion and seriously hampered all pro.
gress,” Mr. Boesen declared.
Suggests New Plan.
(Sm PLAN on page 2)
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Malec, Walter. The Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 86, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 30, 1934, newspaper, October 30, 1934; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1036425/m1/1/?q=yaqui: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.