Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 76, Ed. 1 Friday, June 22, 1934 Page: 1 of 4
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Smiles Prevail at Firemen's Convention
Ohio Man Kills His
VOLUME 51
- — —t-.X'"*81- —-
EARL JOINER DIES
NRA IE W. REICHARDT.
ERITYl HAS PASSED AWAY,
le prominent business
*.*of. Brenham, passed
iidpnee an Ent.. MV”,
o'clock Friday after*
PPPQQ .r
w
ten
to
re-
in
TIME IS EXTENDED
June 22. (A»)
signed Washington County is eigh
Dav
It is believed that it wilt take the
cot-
relief rolls will
MARKETS
iami’lton death
base for the pole.
and
not
over
10c.
1. 18c.
mg. .
The base
the
men.
and
as*
the
the
SEVERAL INJURED IN
AUTO-TRUCK CRASH
FORMER MAYOR OF
' OLNEY GETS LIFE IN.
HIS SON’S SLAYING
from, the
criminal
bears the national
gift of the class of
Houston, Texas, June 22. (A3) —
Earl Joiner, Texas bank robber,, who
boasted jails could not hold him and
made his boast good, died today in the
Liberty jail from blood poisoning de-
veloping from a carbuncle, on hfS
born February
where his par-
Newton, Texa*t*June 22.
young white man was held
Berlin, Germany, June 22. (A3) —
Rumors circulated in political cfrcles
Wednesday Joiner entered a
of guilty, in connection with the rob-
Street
noon. ■ He had been in failing health
"The
.plained.
The coroner who held the inquest
over the body of the slain woman
ascribed the desperate act to tempor-
ary insanity. isafaiU
TEXAS FLAG WILL
JOIN OLD GLORY AT
AANDMCOLLEGE
MacDONALD ADVISED T'Cf
TAKE THREE MONTHS REST
ac-
and
de-
Children of Rectanus said that, so
far as they knew, their father roa«
early today and began striking his
wife with his\fist. They crowded in-
to their father’s room and found that
he-had shot their mother through the
heart
Prisoner
deputies
“found the
BUIl DING MATERIAL
PLANNED BY NRA
U. S. ASKED JOIN
THE INTERNATIONAL
LABOR CONFERENCE
Nashville. Tenn., June 22. (A3) —
General Hugh S. Johnson Thursday
night said “there is a brain trust in
Washington all right, but the brain
is the brain of Franklin D. Roose.-.
Bank Robber Who Boasted
Jails Could Not Hold Him
Makes Boast Good
He goes at a time when NRA crit-
icism has reached perhaps its great-
est height arid just as the recovery
administration itself is undergoing a
transition from a code making to a
On February 16, 1808, the deceased
was married to Miss Elizabeth Fisch-
er, who survives him. He also leaves
an only son, E. N. Rcichardt; two lit-
tle grandsons, Ernest Reichardt, Jr.,
and Rodney Reichardt; a sister, Mrs.
Bertha Schuerenberg; and many oth-
er relatives, as well as a host of warm
friends. His only brother, Wm. E.
Reichardt, .preceded him to the grave
some years ago.
Funeral services will be held from
TWO ARE QUIZZED TWELFTH BOMB IN I
CONNECTION WITH SINISTER CAMPAIGN
NEGRO LYNCHING TERROR IN FRANCE
At 10 p. in. Wednesday, the sheriff
said, a mob of nu n and women began
forming and he ushered the negro
who had claimed he was intoxicated
when the alleged attack occurred, from
the rear door of the jail and placed
him in an automobile pith the two
deputies, who were-instructed Jo rush
oji a vacation.
Seized
the sheriff ex-
highway blocked
London, England. June 22—Prime
Mmisler_J. Ramsay MapDonald was
other relatives, with the sol-
impressive burial ceremonial
Masons for their departed
a box
the negro
Rhode Island Reds
Rocks, weighing
14c.
common stocks,
with guns took the prisoner and
Zifficers’ guns The officers were
dered to ‘get going'.
Perryton, Texas, June 22. (A3) —
Ar, hie Joeffroy. 17, was killed, and
Houston. Texas, June 22. (ZP) —
Officers revealed today that the Har-
ris County grand jury at a special"
meeting held late yesterday voted 34
felony indictments against 24 men, in
epnnectiofi .with disorders arising
cause of Ifts death was pneumonia and ,
replications,, from
been suffering for the
was 65 years, of age.
Prominent Citizen And Mayor
Protem Of Brenham Will
Be Laid To Rest Under
Auspices Of Masons
The college now has only one flag
pole, and that, placed near the West
entrance, always
colors. It was a
1912.
FEDERAL RELIEF
FUNDS GIVE LARGE
AMOUNT TO TEXA
be erected in front of
new administration
new East entrance to
Erection of the new
A revolver was found on the floor
beside Reynolds, who died without re-
gaining consciousness. Officers said
the packing house official had been
ill for some time. —
Eggs 11c.
Fryers,
Plymouth
2 pounds,
Fryers,
Common hens, 6c.
Large hens, 7c.
Old roosters, 3c.
Sour cream butterfat. No.
53>ur cream butterfat. No. 2, 16c.
Sweet cream butterfat, 21c.
Sweet cream butterfat, delivered at
plant, 25c.
advi-ed Trorsdav-wv-tns phvrtrmn *vr
cease alt parliamentary duties at once
and take at lea«t .a three month’s com-
plete rest for his health.
The five panel
resting upon a huge five-pointed Tex-
as star as a sub-base, will be emble-
matic of the agricultural and mechan-
ical instruction carried on at the col-
lege and of the student body, as three
of the five panels will bear figures
depicting agriculture, mechanics and
an Aggie cadet. The other two pan-
els will have suitable inscriptions on
thertf;
feet. high.
donated by
$1,700
to
office with mail taken from
populous workers district.
After several, days respite
bombs police believed the
ed off, but resumption of tlie deliver
WEATHER
East Texas—Generally fair tonight
and Saturday.
Wcst-.Vexas—Generally fair except
34 ARE INDICTED
IN HOUSTON FOR
STRIKE DISORDER
(Sp ).— A Paris, France, June-22. (A3) — A
in jail here .twelfth bom.b in the sinister campaign
probed the
of a negro
th an IK
be base atone will be twelve (, .^.j
Funds for the base were
the 1934 senior class.
Joiner figured in six jail breaks,
eluding a sensational escape from
Angola prison, Louisiana, last Sep-
tember in which three men were kill-
ed. '
Flga, a student jit North Texas
Teachers College at Denton, was fa-
’ tally
YOAPttlrvtciA©
FOR OLD COTTON
Washington, D.C., June 22. (A3) —
Hugh S. Johnson will carry NRA's
banner' Westward next month in a
personal cross-continent campaign to
keep th; N-ie„ -aglc. sold^JP* ,*-~L
prominent
apparently
Shef was held in
Cleveland in 1932, in which
was taken. He Was sentenced
years imprisonment.
Joiner’s relatives are believed
side in Louisiana.
Girl “Drugged”
The girl, member of a
Newton family, said she
had been drugged.
jail here on a charge of vagrancy and
was under the care of a physician, the
sheriff said.
Her white companion of Tuesday
night, the night of the asserted attack
by Griggs, told officers he and the
girl had been drinking, the sheriff
said. Becoming intoxicated he wan
the family residence at ten o’clock
Sunday morning, under the auspices
of the Masonic bodies.- rd -which ■ be- -■
had long been a faithful and active
member, having held membership in
the Bfenham lodges and also being
a Shriner. He will be laid to rest at
Prairie Lea cemetery, near his par-
ents and
emn and
of the
brothers.
Washnigt^n. D. C., June 22. (A3) —
fn the federal relief funds granted to-
day, Texas was allotted $793,252, in-
cluding $127,721 for transient relief,
and $32,492 for reemployment ser-
vice.
Improvement * I n Economic
Condition Seen And New
Deal Defended By
Johnson
OF BLOOD POISON L___
AT LIBERTY JAIL NOW WITHIN REACH' FUNERAL SUNDAY
vation”.
Gen. Johnson said overproduction
of men and women for professions
and vocations as well as overproduc-
tion of material products has creat-
ed one of the major problems, but
he added that “undoubtedly a pro-
gressive race will develop wants
which the minds and hands of mil-
lions may be required to supply”.
. He called on “the creative genius
of our schools and colleges’ to help
Solve this problem.
accused of 'associating
year-old white girl.
The man in custody, said Sheriff
I’ S. Hughes, denied any connection
with the lynching, which occurred on
Harry Hopkins, federal relief chief,
is'expected to take charge of the
housing program unless he personally
signifies a contrary preference to
President Roosevelt.
i highway four miles west of here.
Mrs (Jthar Bruce, her two-year-
cld daughter, Dorothy, and her
mother, Mrs. Ethel Withams also
wi re hurt as they sat in the truck.
of terror by "The Three Judges of
Hell", was found today in the post
a box in
Chicago, Illinois, June 22. (Ah —
Fred James Reynolds, fifty-thref
dered away; leaving the girl beside a I 'I* * *’1’ Collingsworth, 17, suffered
road, it was reported. a broken leg, ribs, .nose, and a head
““SFeriff Hughes said he went to tin* ,a't night when their automo-
negro's home and found the girl in File ran into a truck stalled on the
Griggs' bed.
"She apparently had been drugged
or something", said the sheriff. “Oh
viously t1f<: negro had attacked her”.
Roth the girl and negro were placed
in jail and Wcilmsday there was talk
of mob violence over Newton.
“In the onward march toward bet-
ter times I do not say that all have
profited alike, but even he who has
profited least is far in advance of
what his position was in those dark
days before the NRA was passed.
__uJL d° not say that prosperity is
ever just around the corner; but it
in within our reach”.
General Johnson called on his audi-
ence to “learn all that Voij may of
NRA”. . ' ■
“As you study it more your faith;
Ernest William Reichardt, member
of one of the fine, old-pioneer fatni-
lies of this section, and ‘for- rn'any
years one of the prominent
FRED MUERY ELECTION
JUDGE AT GAY HILL
Reichardt, "Becker and' (S>.,’"Winch +T fiTeHloncly road to-?) range,^where Two HiFv<^rt7i?’Timil’na‘ir'1iaiT1>e<"n scar-
to the people themselves, through the
action of their chosen representatives,
the easily-exerted power to recall, to
modify, to change or to bring to an
end the operation of the law itself.
“In this procedure our president
In the list of election judges for J has shown that democracy has with-
the July Democratic primary, furnish-
ed the Banner-Press for publication,
the name of L. B. Wallace appeared
as judge for the Gay Hill precinct.
Mr. Wallace is the precinct chairman
at Gay Hill, and the election judge
is Fred Muery. Attention is called
to this change in the list of election
judges. ,
Another call has been received for
•uinauucer «
iu« Fischer, county ' relief ailminis-
1 U T> 17 NT TI A
- i "F5’ Iljn« 22. (A>>
—An invirarZ,. _ Ji'State*
to join the international labor confer-
——- ■ ......*——» i ■ ■ ii y fc ,, -• i i » i,
ence was voted unanimously at tjST~
conference session today.
Middletown, Ohio. June 22. (A3) —
Sidney B. Rectanus, aged 46, former
vice president of the American Roll-
ing Mills ( oinimny, today beat, shot
and killed bis wife, Alma Rec-
tanus. aged 42-, then shot and sera
iously wounded his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Elesa Rathmann, aged 76
cooperation of the 1934 senior class,
recently graduated, and the college
RUMORED ATTEMPT
TO MURDER HITLER
UPSETS GERMANY
f _ .r-yyMWerestayi _
i development of the town, and way
prominently identified with various
progressive, movements for the pub-
3t< tvFJfare. Hr way "a kindly, genurf,
honorable gentleman and upright citi-
zen, and his death will be deeply
deplored by numerous warm friends, I
by whom he was liked and esteemed
for his many fine qualities.
replaces tfie law of the jungle with
ethics in behavior. It is the prac-
tical application of the golden rule”.
. Jifi JMfliwn-
nor communism, although The” Phar-
iseey seek diligently to label it with
limit for application! for tags for old '
cotton has been extended from June
15 to July 1, and that warehousemen
and compress superintendents will be
allowed to tag cotton in their posses-
sion.
son, Daniel, 16, said they were struck
bv their father in his frenzied raqa-
page- a..JMfed’«,. *- »rvm IM* ' .
house.
“The deputies came back here
reported the, mob to me and I called
the county attorney and we rushed.
‘teen" yoimg'tneff.'“’A(5|’KfYfffi“v^o'"tirer
accepted will be called to report for
duty on Julv 2, for work in. civilian
conservation camps.
Applicants must be between the
ages of IK and 25 years, inclusive, and
applications may be made at once to
Mr. Fischer at the Chamber of Com
tnerce office in Brenham
The eighteen^ voting, men selected
frem Washington entity will proba-I
blv be sent to caqil’s at Bastrop or
Taylor
Youths whose families are on the
1 Washington County
be given preference in making aelec-
t-ons from the lists of applicants.
COUNTY IS GIVEN _
QUOTA 18 YOUNG
MEN FOR CCC
FRED J. REYNOLDS,
ARMOUR VICE.-PRES.,
IS FATALLY SHOT
/ — Today** Price*
Brenham middling, 12.25.
Houston middling. 12.10.
Galveston middlfrtg, 12.05.
> CottOd*eed, street price, $2000.
Cottonseed hull*. $12.00. !
Cottonseed Meat, retail $1.50.
Cottonaeed meal, wholesale, |I.40.
College Station, Texas, June 22. —
T'he flag of the State of 3*exas soon
will join “Old Glory” in greeting vis-
itors to the Texas A and M College
campus, as a flag pole, to bear the
state flag, will
the beautiful
building at the
the college
pole is being made possible through
Wife And
Seriously Wounds Her Mother I
In Frenzied Shooting Rampage
and a day from the signing of the
cotton textile code, the first of more
than 450 now effective.
Reselling the blue eagle is consid
ered the prime objective of the tour
Last October, Johnson took the field
to pnt across industrial recovery in
the agricnltural West.
ers, the NRA administrator departed
ftom his prepared speech to attack
critics of what he termed President
Roosevelt's “research Ataff”.
“Whatever brain trust Franklin
Roosevelt maintains”, Johnson
serted, "is going to be a trust of
best brains of a cross-section of
United States".
He declared that what the aclmin-
istration's critics do not like is “the
fact that the brain trust is not a ‘yes
trust’ and a ‘yes trust' their way”.
The NRA administrator, speaking
a* George Peabody College for Teach-
ers, said “improved conditions every-
where” attest to the success of the
NRA in the drive toward prosperity,
and added:
“Business, is better. Pay rolls are
r mascotiLto .mar0iaJ»._,Smilcs prevailed.,wh.c< 4he firemen
- .. « M&-ris«2fVthe’ sniffing
boys are Milton Powell of Junction, Texas, retiring as state mascot
which he had aJter ,hree years: Fayberr Holmes, Mineral Wells fire marshal; and
| . K. V. Nprthington, Jr., Ballinger, Texas, the new mascot. (Texas
past week. He News Photos) ' - ’
j -that .Jft^artvmpt-tard bee. ” . the
life of Chancellor Hitler upset Ger-
| many amL kept officials of the Gov-
jernmeC.. . .
I Thursday explaining that the Chan-
cellor was hale, hearty and in the
best of spirits.
“I saw. him as he alighted from Jus
| car on returning from Neudeck in the
afternoon", one official said.
! I he rumors took concrete form in
two versions One was that Hitler
had been shot at on the way back
to Berlin from Neudeck and that his
condition was serious.
The second had it that some one
fired at him and missed as he was«at
tending funeral services Wednesday
at Eberswalde for Frau Karin Goer-
ing. wife of the Propaganda Minister
Both -versions apparently repre-
sented an exaggeration of an actual
incident. Some, one withi »-private
hv -S»tflr--tnnfc “rr xhtlt-Wt ItTratT--
tomobilc carrying one of many per-
-Goering ceremppy,
e bullet, Xvhich was intended
neither for the Chancellor nor any
other Cabinet member, missed its
mark The incident occurred far from
the scene of Frau Goering's funeral
Dallas, Texas, June 22. (A*) — Rel-
atives of Raymond Hamilton have
employed James H. Martin, Dallas
attorney, to jom Albert Baskett in an
attempt to save' the 20 year-old hank
robber from death for the slaying of
, a guar^-t >hc F.gjit;
the prisoner to < Grange for safe keep- - ......i
Fam prison farm.
Martin and-Baskett said they were)
preparing to write a' brief-for an ap-
peal as soon a* the testimony of the
trial-al Huntsville two weeks ago »r-
rtved. - -----■ ■ -
Martin said they would contend that
liamilton's conviction at Hillsboro j
for the staying of J. N Bucher, a
filing station operator, which was not
appealed, "is sf voidable judgment and
fherefore fTie Tail verdict should b*
back to the scene. We followed a trail, s*t aside”.
of Wood from the scene to where’the Hamilton’* trial at Huntsville was ...------ ---_----------
negro’s body was tied to the rear of for the slaying of Crow son and a* an partly cloudy, unsettled in the Psn-
an automobile and dragged away”. I habitual criminal ‘ . I handle tonight and Saturday.
The deceased was
21 1869, in Germany,
ents had gone on a visit to their
former home. At the age of six
months he was brought to Brenham,!
of--which place he was a life-long resi- j
dent. He was educated at the Bren-
ham public schools, a college in Ken-1
lucky, and A and M College of Tex- Thursday night as officers
as, and was a man of- considerable lynching Wednesdax night
intellectual attainments, as well as'a
splendid business capabilities.
In early manhood Mr. Reichardt
entered the wholesale grocery busi-
ness as a member of the firm of
plea
whole America people"
Addressing an economic conference
Reichard t-AJ>bott "Company. For
many years his firm was one of the
largest and most prosperous whole-
sale grocery firms in this section of
the state, and he was .considered an
authority on various phases«.of that
business. Some months ago he re-
tired from activd business on account
of failing health.
Mr. Reicliardt has been a member
of the city commission of Brenham
I xp-jr<$i-uiu wimc i ir
for many y ears and was mas or pr„(hanged to
tem at the time of hi., death. He was roa(|sjjc 5^ a mob of men-and women \ ernon
■ Smr■'irtprws ’rr^
the negro prisoner from Deputy Sher-’ ardson, former -Olney mayor and
, iffs G. A. Smith and W. E. Davis, pri.minrnt ml operator, for the slai.^.
TTjjir -20, ami sen-
i.egro’s body before it was cut down tcnced linn to 99 years HcTprisonmeritT
attached to the rear of an automobile R y. Cummmgs, tin*' defense
.and dragged .0 er theetHm+y aml ,,-L ,.^4 Wlrtt44 -cesv
finally thrown in the yard of
factory commissary, w'nete
lived
Washington, D. C . June 22. (A3) —
A downward revision of building ma-
tcrial prices under NRA codes, to re-
enforce the administration home
building and repair program, was said
APPEAL PREPARED , today, bv an authority In the con-
struction industry, to be planned with-
in the next fortnight
* Company was found fatally Wound-
ed in the bathroom of his Glencoe
home today. Reynolds served
tively for Armour and Company
was in charge of the purchasing
partment. •
>“),'^fe^-.were rushing the ne- 'cs revived the .widespread fear felt
gro tor safe keeping as. a mob of TSlll tffout&uu Taris.
men and women stormed thf county 1 . .. .
Authorities art* convinced that- some
jail for Son Griggs, 30, negro labor- • , . , „
mjane person, brooding over the Sta-
er. i , 1 •,
, J v«*ky scandal, is responsible for the
Mob Blocks Road I f iendish campaign in which several
No charges had been filed against , vmkers have been ^injured.
the man in custody, the sheriff said,
■as he pointed out that the man was
held for questioning.
^Jriggs, who was arrested by Sher-
iff Hughes w hen the officer^ found an
*
18-ycar-old white girl in the negro's
a' tree on the
is being designed by Hu-
hI wHI the’ wi X.
- .—A.. . . .....■ •XIlSWOW
Mr Vtli wm an also-
ciate of Gutzon Borglum, noted
srulpto^. for fourteen year*, and
worked with him on the Stone Moun-
tain Xfemorial at Atlanta. Go., and on
the Mt Rushmore. Memorial in South
Dakota Work of erecting the pole
will be done by the college landscape
art department, of which Prof F. W.
Hemel is the head. t
■wee
One year ago today middling
cotton sold in Brenham for 9.15.
c <»de FffTcTfVrtFTFnf " igrncY
Leaving the capital July 10, John-
sen plan* speeches in key cities
where in his characteristic army-*
learned vocabulary, the one time
cavalry officer will outline new NRA
steps and answer what he term* "a
jabbering moaning clique of opposi-
tionists”.
Probably purposely, b* begins hi*
second Westward swing ju*t a year
f ” ___
The ~Director of the ^rrtton Tag~
ging Bureau announces that the time
either or both’’.. He added that “as
befits a democracy”, when the NRA
was created "there was provided the
means of administration of business
by business itself”.
“In the same spirit of democracy”,
General Johnson continued, “the con-
entire month of July to complete the' gress of the United States retained
tagging of all old cotton in the
ton states.
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