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Peach Blossom Time in Dixie
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June and Jane I.aFontaine, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
I.aFontaine of Atlanta, shown among the peach blossoms on the Frank
Hill farm near Fanthersvillc, Ga. Heavy blossoms foretell a bumper
peach crop this summer.
LINE or TWO
Be sure, farmers, that you vote next Saturday
and that you vote as your own interest demands. The
. present farm law offers you advantages you never
k had before and which you demanded. Now you have
r‘ them.
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The allotments will be — according to the cultivated,
land. But the main thing — you will be free to sell all
the cotton produced on the allotted land without any
penalty.
* * * * *
The allotment percentage will not be the same every-
where — not yet. The cotton acreage again will count in
the county allotments. Accordingly, in Lavaca it will be a-
bout 35, in Nueces perhaps 55 per cent of the cultivated
land.
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And in the individual farm allotments, those who
planted more, will get the full allotted percentage. The
others will receive only their planted and diverted cotton
acreage—less than the allotment.
* * * • *
But still it will not lie the allotments based only on
the crop — which you had before. Tilled land will govern
at least partially, in justice to you, small farmers.
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Suppose you vote “No” next Saturday, as some ad-
vise you. You will lose the government rent lor this
year and the 3c price guarantee for the cotton sold last
year. And what will you gain?
* * * * *
The allotments according to the tilled land! —
• What this paper advocated for you small farmers
from the beginning of the farm law, five years ago,
is becoming a fact now.
*****
And do you remember how some considered the
allotments according to the tilled land a mistaken and im-
possible idea? And how they ridiculed the Tribune's editor
lor his stand in your behalf?
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Your battle, small farmers, is far yet from being
won. You are not united, Labor is. The American work-
ers are on the march tor more than fifty years, you
only five years. Only leadership is needed.
* * » * *
Archbishop Arthur J. Drossaerts with youthful vigor
far belieing his age took up the cause ol the poor pecan
j^jpllers at San Antonio in the name of social justice. The
others might have been silent, but not the Archbishop.
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Was it in vain? — Far from it. The conditions
of pecan shellers will be improved. Tile small farm-
ers, too are awaiting a similar leadership which would
start them on the march towards unity and justice.
What Would You Gain?
Last year only about 1200 out of four thousand
Lavaca farmers cooperated in the soil conservation pro-
gram.
What did they gain?
They have now only $40,000 coming from the go-
vernment instead of $200,000 which they could have re-
i* ceived as a rental.
And they still have to buy more than half of their
feed stuff for their cattle, instead of producing it them-
selves.
Some tell you, vote “No” next Saturday. Suppose
you vote “No.”
What will you gain ?
You lose the government rental if you do not co-
operate.
You also lose the 3c price guarantee on the cotton
sold last year.
You allow unlimited cotton planting to ,go on un-
hampered.
There are seven million bales now in excess of the
) normal surplus.
Will unlimited planting aid the cotton market and
the price next fall?
Some say, the 2 cent penalty will not stop anybody
from unlimited planting. Can anything stop them ?
You say, many will use fertilizers to produce .l
larger crop.
Will your voting "No” Saturday prevent it?
For the first time you will have allotments according
j to the tilled land, as you wanted.
The allotment percentage will not yet be equal a-
V mong the counties, nor among the farmers, as it should.
But even this partial advance is much better than
the former allotments according to the crop only.
You also can sell tax free all the cotton produced
on the acreage allotted.
I)o a little figuring first and be sure of what you
are doing before you cast your vote against the oppor-
tunity the law offers you next Saturday.
THE TRIBUNE
Has the Largest Circulation of Any Paper Published Between San Antonio and Houston
Volume VII.
Hallettsville, Texas, Friday, March 11, 1938
Number 19
HEWS FLASHES
Jap Diet Discusses
IJ. S.-Born Youths
Tokio, March 7. — (AP)
—Foreign Minister Koki
Hirota declared in the diet
today that American-born
Japanese, even though liv-
ing in America, “should be
educated as Japanese.”
The statement replied to
questions from Bunji Suzu-
ki, labor leader, who asked
if the government had any
educational policy for those
of the “second generation ”
Lawyer Sentenced in
Theft of Nobel Prize
Berlin, March 7. —(AP)
Kurt Wannon , a Berlin
lawyer, was sentenced to
two years at hard labor to-
day for embezzling a large
part of the 1935 Nobel
peace prize awarded to Carl
Von Ossietsky, German
pacifict.
W’annow also was depriv-
ed of his civil rights for
three years and fined 8000
marks ($3200).
It was alleged that the
attorney charged 20,000
marks for fees and spent
large sums for other pur-
poses, leaving only 16,500
marks ($6600) for Von Os-
sietsky out of the 100,000
marks (40,000) prize
money, which Wannow col-
lected for him at Olso, Nor-
way, last year.
Pope Honors Morgan,
Lament and Al Smith
Rome, March 8. — Pope
Pius today created J. P.
Morgan, American financier
and his partner, Thomas
Lamont, knights of the Or-
der of St. Gregory the
Great with the grand cross.
The pontiff named Alfred
E. Smith, former governor
of New York state, a pa-
pal chamberlain of the Cape
and Sword-
Rural Relief Needs
Cited to Congress
Washington, March 7. —
(INS) Widespread destitu-
tion in rural areas, with
one-third of the population
there “ill-fed, ill-clothed and
ill-housed,” was reported to
the senate unemployment
committee today by Cor-
lington Gill, assistant WPA
administrator.
Mounting relief rolls,
thousands of poverty-strick-
en persons not receiving re-
lief, conditions in the South
particularly acute — was
the picture presented by
Gill. He was joined by Ru-
pert B. Vance of the Uni-
versity of North Carolina,
in portraying need for bet-
ter conditions in the cotton
belt.
Tribute to Re Paid
to Father Muldoon
San Antonio, March 8.—
Rev. T. P. O’Rourke will be
presented by the Harris
County Historical Society at
8 p.m., tomorrow night in
the Library in a discussion
of the life and adventures
of Father Miguel Muldoon,
Texas historical charact-
er.
The meeting, part of the
observance of “Texas
Week,” is to be a tribute to
Father Muldoon, described
as the “forgotten man” of
Texas history-
“Father Muldoon figures
prominently in Texas af-
fairs from 1822 to 1842,”
says Houston Wa^e, vice
president of the society.
“He is one of our major
heroes, and deserves a place
in our recognition. He
well deserves to have a mo-
nument erected to his mem-
ory. He earned it, and in
all probability paid for it
with his life blood.’’
DEMANDS END OF pie eating king
DIVINE SERVICES
IN ARMY
Berlin, March 9. — A de-
mand for abolition of the
Protestant and Catholic di-
vine service in the army was
made in today’s issue of the
weekly Das Schwarze Korps,
an organ close to Heinrich
Himmler, head of the secret
police.
Austria Plans To Hold
Election.
Vienna, March 9.—Sources
close to the government con-
firmed tonight that Chancel-
lor Kurt Schuschnigg intends
to hold a national plebiscite
in which Austrians will be
asked to answer yes or no
to the question; “Are you
for an independent Austria?”
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Sales Tax Increases
Unemployment
Albany, March 5- — Pro-
posals to add a sales tax to
other taxes on industry for
unemployment relief were
characterized today by War-
ren S. Blauvelt of Troy, in-
dustrial executive, as evi-
dence that “man’s stupidity
has no bounds at all.”
"We tax productive indus-
try into a chronic weakness
which has proved fatal to
many undertakings," lie told
a meeting of the New York
State Society of Profession-
al Engineers, “and then pro-
pose a sales tax which will
increase prices, reduce pro-
duction and multiply unem-
ployment, to provide funds
to relieve the unemployed.”
Steven Busho, thirteen, displayi
the equipment which won the pie-
eating contest at the Associated
Bakers of America convention it
Chic ago. Steven messed his mouth
a little around the edges, but
chomped and licked through to vic-
tory.
Gambling Laws
Not Enforced
Grand Jury Says
Nine Receive
Minor Orders
Weimar Stockman
Dies While Riding
Over His Ranch
Weimar, March 5. — Hen-
ry Heller, 60, Weimar stock-
man and life-long resident
of this city, died suddenly
of a heart attack while cov-
ering his ranch on horseback
at Sheridan. He was ac-
companied by hjs son, Oscar,
and a negro. Mr. Heller fell
from his horse as the negro
was opening a gate. Oscar,
two miles away, rushed to
the scene, found his father
still breathing. On arrival
at the hospital at Columbus
Mr- Heller was pronounced
dead by the physicians.
The body was brought to
Weimar for burial. Funeral
services will be held Wednes-
day in St. Michael’s Church.
San Antonio, Tex., March
9. — The Most Rev. Arch-
taishop A. J. Drossaerts
confirmed the last of the
Minor Orders on nine young
men in the Chapel of St.
John’s Archdiocesan Semi-
nary on Wednesday morning,
March 9th.
Those for the Archdiocese
of San Antonio who were
ordained to Exorcistate and
Acolytate are:— Anthony
Matula and -James McKnight,
Hallettsville: Adolph Janda,
Ilr.styn; Vaclav Bily, Praha:
Claude Faust, San Antonio;
Hubert Bauman, Harper.
Those for the Diocese of Dal-
las are:—John Duesman,
Pilot Point; Donald Hartnet,
Fort Worth; Lloyd Natoli,
Dallas.
The above mentioned
young men will be ordained
Subdeacons on May 6th, in
St. John’s Seminary Chapel.
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Bond Posted for
Negro in Bottled
Drink Case
According to Paul Boethel,
defense attorney represent-
ing John Jones, negro, who
was fined $1-00 and costs
of justice court in connec-
tion with a “bottled drink”
case, the total costs were
$25.70 rather than $28.00 as
originally stated.
The attorney said that
bond had been posted for the
negro and that the case had
been appealed to the county
court.
PRIESTS, SISTERS BURNED
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ALIVE BY SPANISH REDS
New York. — An eye-wit-
ness account of the burning
alive of 50 nuns and three
priests in a church at Cor-
doba. Spain, by Communists
and Anarchists, was told
here by Wladek Zbyszko,
wrestler, on his return to
the United States after four
years abroad.
Mr Zbyszko said he was
giving exhibitions in Spain
when the out-break of the
revolution found him at Cor-
doba. One day, he declared,
he saw a mob of Communists
and Anarchists forcing
priests and nuns, all of
whom had been stripped of
their clothing, through the
streets in a mock religious
procession. Food and water
had been denied them for
several days, he said he
was informed.
On reaching a church, he
said, each of the victims
was given a “religious ha-
bit” — a burlap sack with
church. Gasoline was pour-
ed over different parts of
the church and ignited, he
declared. Several of the
victims ran screaming from
the church, he said, but were
thrown back into the inferno
by the mob.
Seemed Like Fiends.
“Even now I can hardly
speak of that terrible sight,"
Mr. Zbyszko said- “The Reds
who killed those poor nuns
and priests in a ghastly man-
ner seemed like fiends, not
human beings. In their
drunken frenzy, the Reds
cried over and over, as if re-
citing a blasphemous litany,
the most obscene expressions
imaginable. If I hadn’t seen
this with my own eyes I
would not believe that such
human depravity could ex-
ist.”
The athlete also told of
seeing another terrible sight
in Cordoba — that of a
slits for the head and arms, priest, stripped naked and
The sacks were sprinkled
with gasoline and the priests
hung up in a butcher’s win
dow with the carcasses of
and nuns shoved inside the [pigs.
NEW TELEPHONE
SYSTEM READY
MARCH 26th
Hallettsville’s new “lift-
the-receiver” telephone sys-
tem is almost completed, and
will be “cut in” March 26,
W. A. Schorre, manager o)
the Southwestern Bell Tele-
phone Company, announejd
this week.
Telephone company instal-
lers are now erecting and
connecting the new switch-
board and other central of-
fice equipment in the tele-
phone office here. In order
that the “cutover” from the
present to the new system
may be accomplished with-
out interruption of service,
every telephone line in the
city must be connected to
both the old and the new
switchboards until the
change is made.
"Cranks” Will Be Replaced.
As soon as possible after
the new system goes into
service, all telephones in
Hallettsville will be replaced
with more convenient “crank-
less” instruments. This can-
not be done until the new
switchboard is in operation,
Schorre said, because the
new telephone cannot be used
with the present switch-
board.
“There are many advan-
tages of the new ‘lift-the-re-
ceiver’ telephone system,”
Schorre said. “The first
thing subscribers will notice
is the elimination of the ne-
cessity of cranking before
and after each call. Another
advantage is that it will not
be necessary to ask for ‘In-
formation’, ‘Rural Operator’,
or ‘Long Distance’, as the
new system enables any o-
perator to handle any call.”
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“Panys” Car Stolen
At Yoakum,
Recovered
—O—
Forty minutes after it had
been stolen, an automobile
belonging to Blaise “Pany”
Jares, son of F. W. Jares of
Hallettsville, the vehicle had
been recovered by Sheriff
Emil Markowsky of Cuero
and three men had confess-
ed to the crime.
Blaise, known to friends
as “Pany”, operates a radio
shop in Yoakum by the name
of “Par.y’s Radio Shop,” and
was eating supper when the
automobile theft occurred.
The theft was discovered
by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Stark of Yoakum who were
passing the radio shop at
the time The incident was
reported to J. H. Gwyn, nite
officer, who promptly joined
the chase for the stolen car
At Cuero, Officer Gwyn
notified Sheriff Markowskv
and an alarm was spread.
A short time later, the sher-
iff found the car, abandoned
for lack of gasoline on the
Cuero-San Antonio highway.
Before ten p. m. the sheriff
found three men in a box
ear near Cuero, arrested
them, and the trio confessed
thev had stolen the car.
They gave their names as
Jim I.awhon of Fdinb"rg
Clvde P>rown of Corpus Chri-
sii and .T. p. Alexander of
California.
Blaise is a former Tribune
employe.
INTENDED VICTIM
Col. H. W. T. Eglin, U. S. A., com-
mander of Fort Totten and the Six-
ty-second coast artillery at New
York, who, according to tederal
DRUNKEN DRIVING AND
GAMBLING IN COUN-
TY SHOULD G O,
GRAND JURY URGES
After returning 13 indict-
ments, all felonies, and find
ing the county institutions
in a satisfactory condition,
the Grand Jury makes strong
recommendations regarding
the drunken driving and
gambling within Lavaca
County.
“All possible should be
done to keep those drunken
drivers off the highways,
roads and streets,” the re-
port says.
It points out “that marble
machines, slot machines,
punch boards and similar de-
vices are being operated with
out interference in the Coun-
ty; also that picture show
agents, was to be the intended vie- bank nights are being con-
tim of a spy plot and was to be ducted.”
kidnaped to a New York hotel where
he was to bring certain secret doc-
uments dealing with the defense oi
New York city.
Cuero Man Is
Found Dying
Cuero, March 9. — Char-
les Schultz, Cuero black-
smith, was found in a bath-
room of the eating estab-
lishment operated by his
wife on South Esplanade
shortly after noon Wednes-
day, the charge of a 410
gauge shot gun in his throat-
He died within a few min-
utes after his wife reached
him.
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Cars Crash
Near Cuero
Cuero, March 9.—William
Hrncir, newcomer to Cuero,
who was to accept a position
at the Reuss Drug Store
Thursday moning, figured in
an automobile crash at the
junction of the old and new
Victoria highways near the
Cuero Municipal Park Wed-
nesday evening. He was cut
about the face and head by
flying glass and his car was
badly damaged.
Hrncir was leaving town
on the new highway and
was turning to enter the
park when his car crashed
head on with a car occupied
by Walter Porter and wife,
colored.
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CHURCH ROOF PAINTED
At the present time the
roof of the Sacred Heart
Church is being re-touched,
the work is being done by the
Commercial Painting Co.
This will help to improve
the appearance of the church.
This lack of law enforce-
ment should be stopped im-
mediately, the Grand Jury
recommends.
The Spring term session of
District Court started Mon-
day and the Grand Jury con-
cluded its work Wednesday.
The report to District Judge
Lester Holt follows:
We, your grand jury for
the spring term A. D., 1938,
District Court, Lavaca Coun-
ty, Texas, beg leave to sub-
mit the following report-
(1) We have carefully gone .
into and investigated ail vio-
lations of the law brought
to our attention and are re-
turning herewith 13 indict-
ments, all for felonies;
(2) We have inspected the
County Poor Farm and found
it to be kept in an excellent
condition. The inmates ap-
pear to be well provided for
and the management of the
farm is in capable and reli-
able hands;
(3) We have inspected the
Court House and grounds,
and the County Jail and
(See Jur.Vf -p. 2, col. 3.)
Marihuana, Whiskey
Seized at Cuero
Cuero, March 9. — State
Liquor enforcement officers,
assisted by Sheriff Emil Mar-
kowsky and Deputy Sheriff
Henry Wied, struck swiftly
here Tuesday night and Wed-
nesday morning to seize a
quantity of marihuana and
whiskey.
Three prisoners were be-
hind the bars in the DeWitt
county jail as a result of
the raids and it was report-
ed that other suspects were
to be rounded up Wednes-
day afternoon.
ONE DEAD, FOUR HURT IN
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HEAVY WIND STORM WEDNESDAY
One man died, four were i Will Hnl/t
i i i i I rift* • • 1/ I
injured during the hign I
wind which struck the Cor-
pus Christ i section early
Wednesday morning. Con-
siderable damage was done.
Two negroes were injured
at Robstown when their
house rolled away.
Austin reports heavy wind
with some property damage
in that section.
In the Taylor area build-
ings were damaged on seven
farms, among them Joe Ko-
var’s. Leon Najvar’s and
Martin Pala’s.
A chicken) house on Joe
Kovai's farrA was curried a-
way 250 feet from its foun-
dation.
Joint Meeting
Schulenburg, March 8. —
According to announcement
to-day from W. R. Keuper,
secretary for the Schulen-
burg Soil Conservation As-
sociation, the Schulenburg
chamber of commerce has
accepted an invitation to
meet with the conservation
association Friday evening
Marcli 11, at 7:30 P- M. at
the CCC Camp there.
Important business is
scheduled and all members
of the association are urged
to attend. Visitors are wel-
come.
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