The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1932 Page: 2 of 4
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THE MULLIN ENTERPRISE
Published Weekly at Mullin,
Mills County, Texas.
R- H. Patterson, Editor
Entered second class mail
matter January 1, 1902
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Notice of church/mtertain-
ments where admission is charg-
*d; cards of thanks, resolutions
uf respect land all matters not
news will be charged for at
regular advertising rates.
A 20-year sieavch for George
Presnell, 59, wanted in Bakers-
ville, N. C., on a charge of mur-
der, ended at Columbia, Mo., in
the arrest of the fugitive. Pves-
nell, who admitted his identity,
said that hq, the man killed and
another man, whose name he
did not remember, quarreled
and fought over his wife.
One hundred and four indict-
ments, charging conspiracy and
violation of the fedeval prohi-
bition act, were handed down
at New Orleans by a federal
grand jury investigating the op-
erations of ydiat authorities de-
scribed as a fav-flung interna-
tional rum ring.
A Washington ‘report says:
“Thoroughly alarmed over the
“menace” represented by A1
Smith’s passive candidacy and
the ambitions of some 15 fav-
orite sons, Franklin D. Roose^-
velt and his Supporters have de-
cided upon an immediate and
energetic drive to pledge as
many delegates as possible for
his nomination next June.
A new schedule of federal in-
come taxes and a gift tax, not
in the present law has been ten-
tatively agreed to by the house
ways and means committee.
The new ineome tax rates arc
understood to! closely follow the
treasur y’recommendations,
reaching a maximum of 40 per
cent on incomes of more than
a $1,000,000 year, but no change
in present exemptions.
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A $10,000 tpust fund, the in-
come to be used in aiding d^
serving students attending the.
Universtiy of Texas, was estab-
lished in the Will of Mrs. Mary
Eliza Brown, Tiled for probate
in Austin. The fund will be
known as the: Brown scholar-
ship fund. Selection of student
beneficiaries of the fund was
vested in the .president of the
University of. Texas.
After a trial in Waco, Wil-
liam C. Beck, 19, was convicted
on a charge of murder for the
shooting of O. L. Jones, Waco
automobile salesman, in . a pur-
ported robbery on the Waco
highway. The jury sentenced
him to death. Jones was killed
in September by a youth lie had
picked up and given a ride in
his automobile; In convicting
Peck the jury disagreed with
a defense claim that the de-
fendant was insane at the time
of the slaying.
At the bottom of the River
Trent in England is the skele-
ton of a mammoth that died
some many years ago,but whose
remains may soon be exposed
to public gaze in a museum.
Two great teeth and a five-foot
tusk were brought up by a grav-
el company working near Not-
tingham. The molars are each
as big as a man’s head and in
wonderful condition. A diver is
trying to locate the remainder®
of the skeleton.
The news has just reached
Nome, Alaska ’of destructive
floods just b:f(A*e Christmas
that destroyed seven Eskimo
villages and caused much loss of
life. Bodies of the victims have
since been found encased in
solid ice.
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FARM AND RANCH LOANS
Easy Terms—5 to 36 Years
Dependable Service Through
—the—
Federal Farm Land Bank
of Houston, Texas
—See—
. W. C. DEW
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In Alabama 400 convicts are
being released till August 15,
so they can go home and make
a crop.
The thirteenth proved un-
lucky for city 'employees in
Houston. A second salary slash
of 10 per cent was announced
on Feb. 13.
J. W. Parks, president of the
Texas State Federation of La-
bor, has announced that organ-
ized labor in Texas favors a re-
turn of legalized beer.
The depression is affecting
some of the candidates. Virgil
Arnold of Houston, who ran
for lieutenant governor of the
state two years ago, is now re-
ported to be a candidate for
justice- of the peace.
A 16-year-old negro boy in
Philadelphia has confessed that
he lurJed 7-year-old Dorothy
Lutz into a vacant house, at-
tacked and killed her. Police
there said they believed he was
mentally deficient.
Results of the war game just
concluded, in which a supposed-
ly hostile force succeeded in
capturing Hawaii, show that the
islands need another division
of soldiers, if they are to be ade-
quately protected from foreign
attack.
Milk producers at Houston
Sunday poured 1500 gallons of
milk into the sewers in front of
dairies there, rather than ac-
cept a lower price. Milk was
shipped in from Dhllas to sup-
ply the demand. Producers say
they will sell to the customers
direct at 5c a quart.
In the president’s war against
hoarding of currency it has
been discovered, that most of
the money hoarded is in $50
bills and higher. Sums of $50,-
000 and $100,000 are common.
Still the president’s committee
is begging the little fellows to
turn in their cash too.
Secretary Hurley, tall secre-
tary of war in President Hoov-
er’s cabinet, stalked out of a
committee meeting in the sen-
ate office building Saturday,
saying he refused to stay and
| be called a liar. He had had a
hot interchange of questions
and answers with Senator King
of Utah, who favors Philippine
independence.
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THE FIRST BATHTUB
Adam Thompson of Cincin-
nati, is credited with having
made the first bathtub known
to America. During a business
trip to England he was intro-
duced to the English way of
bathing. On his return to Amer-
ica in 1842 he decided to make
a bathtub large enough to con-
tain his entire body, and to be
filled by a tank instead of by
hand. He built a tank in the
attic of liis home, pumping wat-
er into it from the family pump.
Pipes for hot and cold water
led to the bathtub, the one for
hot water coiled within the
length of the chimney, through
which hot air and smoke from
the kitchen stove passed.
The tub was seven feet long,
four feet wide,and deep enough
to hold the plumpest of per-
sons. It was built of mahogany
and lined with sheet lead. On
the first Christmas day after
installation of the tub, Mr.
Thompson gave a bathtub par-
ly, all the men present trying
out the wonderful invention.
This party was featured in
many of the newspapers and
created a sensation.
Members of the medical pro-
fession fought the idea with
warnings that the practice was
dangerous to the health, and
state and city governing bodies
passed laws prohibiting and
discouraging the use of bath-
tubs. The state of Virginia
passed a law taxing owners of
bathtubs $30 a year. In Boston
a law was passed which was in
effect from. 1845 to 1862, for-
bidding one to take a bath ex-
cept on advice of a physician.
The cities of Providence, Hart-
ford and Wilmington put a high
water tax on buildings that con-
tained bathtubs and in Phila-
delphia a law was proposed,
making it unlawful to bathe be-
tween November 1 and March
15. This failed of passage by a
margin of two votes. — Watch-
man Examiner.
CURE BY PREVENTION
Gerald Cress, six-year sher-
iff of Madison county, Iowa, is,
as the Christian Science Moni-
tor tells the story of his admin-
istration, a law enforcement of-
' ficer who believes in scotching
crime before it strikes. Sheriff
Cress explains why major crime
has practically disappeared
from his county.
Organized gambling itself is
a mere human peccadillo, but
experience has shown it to be
a source of more serious of-
fenses. Sheriff Cress raided
the gamblers so frequently that
they went out of business in
his county. Migratory Mexican
labor, excitable and quick to
start quarrels with tragic re-
sults, causes the county trou-
ble but it needs the labor. The
sheriff simply applies the form-
er western dance hall custom
to that problem; he makes the'
Mexicans check their weapons
with the county. For the bank
robber, the sheriff has equip-
ped his force with machine guns
and tear gas, arranged to have
aviation corps auxiliary to pur-
sue the bandits, and then ad-
vertised the facts widely. So
far, bank robbers have stayed
away. Co-operation with local
police has resulted in an intent
sive policy of investigation of
suspicious arrivals. “Crooks,”
says the sheriff, “just don’t
likec to come here any more.”
The Iowa sheriff has borrow-
ed here and there. Other law
enforcement agencies use some
of his plans. Mr. Cress has sim-
ply adopted all of the measures
that appear to him needed to
repress crime. Life is easier for
sheriffs as for everybody else
if there is no crime committed.
Other sheriffs might profit by
the Iowan’s example. The best
record is not the number of
criminals apprehended, but the
number dissuaded from crime.
—Dallas News.
TEXAS IS ALL RIGHT
Most of us have short mem-
ories. The real history of Texas
started from a depression that
drove Moses Austin from Mis-
souri to seek a new fortune in
a new country. At his death, he
passed the task on to his son,
Stephen. Texas was almost des-
titute of any wealth except its
resources/ in which the Austin'
colonists found it rich beyond
dreams. All these resources are;
still here, as abundant as in the
beginning, and increased a hun-
dred-fold or more by the dis-
coveries and ingenuity of its
citizens. Texas is preparing to
show the world these resources
and . their development in the
past one hundred years in a
great centennial exposition in
1936| Texans themselves heed
to be reminded of these things.
It will give them courage to go
forward to still greater achieve-
ments and make them ashamed 1
that they have ever weakened,
even in the least bit, in their
faith in the great resourceful-
ness of their great state and its
still greater citizenry. So long
as we are Texans in the real
spirit of its founders there, can
be no limits to our efforts and
our accomplishments. — Ex-
change.
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BONUS HELPED BUSINESS
When the' law was passed last
year, enabling the veterans to
borrow up to 50 per cent of the
value of their insurance certifi-
cates, and the money was made
available to the beneficiaries, .
business experienced a hew ac-
tivity for a time. The cash was •
put into circulation, most of it
going for necessities, debt pay-
ing and home buying. Mr. Pat-
man is not far from right when
he says that the only up.u(n
business has had since the de-
pression got its grip on this
county, was when the billion
dollars and more was paid to
the veterans on loans last year.
It will require $2,200,000,000
to complete paying the insur-
ance bonus, if it is paid now.
Release of that much cash in
the country now would give im-
petus to business, and the ef-
fect should be more permanent
than was the distribution of
bonus money last year, because
other agencies have set at wc.dk 1
to relieve the business slump.
Payment of the balance of the
bonus would be an aid to thes
oilier agencies in routing tlm
depression, providing it could
be carried out without ‘resort-
ing to stiff new taxation.IIeavv
new tax levies at this time wil1
discourage business recovery,
and should be avoided.—Hous-
ton Post.
The bankrupt Wabash rail-
road received the first loan
from the new two billion dollar
Reconstruction Finance Corpor-
ation last week. Closed banks
are also being aided.
An insurance man in Pennsyl-
vania has written to President
Hoover suggesting he take a
ten per cent salavy cut as an
example to other federal em-
ployees.
DIVORCED TOO SOON
Mrs. Frances Taucher of Chi-
cago came to the U. S: from
Austvia 14 years ago to be the
bride of a man who had liked
her‘picture. Several years ago
they got a divorce, and Mrs.
Tauchev has been working in a
hat shop to support her chil-
dren, Now she has received
word' that she has inherited a
million dollar estate from a
Values of stqcks traded in oil
the New York stock exchange
jumped over five.billion dollars
last week as A result of the inr
L crease in a?l markets. Revision
of the fedeval reserve banking
rules and printing more paper
money is responsible for the in-
create.
great-uncle in the old country.
She is going home, but her ex-
husband will stay hese.
THRICE A YEAR INCOME MAKES GOOD RANCH BUSINESS
Sheep and turkeys make a
good ranch combination, ac-
cording to Ben Sigal (top pic-
ture aloove) of Ovalo, Taylor
county, because wool sales in
eaVly summer and turkey and
lamb sales in fall and winter
furnish an income three times a
year. On this 2600-acre ranch,
Mrs. Sigal (lowev right) has
charge of the turkeys, of which
she sold 700 last season hatch-
ed in a hatchery from eggs from
46 hens. This unique ranch sys-
tem was begun in 1930 with the
help of C. M. Heald, county
agent, who is shown in the low-
ev left insert figuring up the
sheep end of the business with
Mr. Sigal, and Miss Caroline
Chamber'S,' home demonstration
agent, who appears in the lower
right showing Mvs. Sigal how
to select U. S. No. 1 turkeys.
MODERN TOYS FOR MODERN Ip.
Today's ch*ki .is not content with yestor
day's toys. Ite demands replicas 1 ...
wonders he sees . . . and gets them. Re-
cently a inamifacttxrer duplicated the
Akron, top, on a mass prod action T nsis as
gifts for chtfdi-er:. i"red noughts. Omaha,
is getting his I ' Ak.\>n ready for a
trans-mill pond
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MEN OF TASTE: Ti-se professional
“tasters” nava, .tiaiooe j Ats. Their i:ute-
tests help safeguard many things wc eat
and drink. Right, below, wine tasters in
one of our best, cellars ... in Paris! Deft,
George Mitchell, dean of tea-tasters, and
J. C. J.IdNulty, expert eo!lee-taster, direct
the Maxwell House taster staff, New York.
ADMIRAL, M. M. TAY-
LOR, Commander U. S.
Asiatic Fleet, now senior
foreign officer in the
Sino-Jap war zone.
SUN-KISSED: Let It
snow back home say the
Misses Van Nuy, Chicago,
who are caught sun-
at St. Petersburg.
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Patterson, R. H. The Mullin Enterprise. (Mullin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1932, newspaper, February 18, 1932; Mullin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115765/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.